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 816 KEWAUNEE KEYSER KEWACTfEE, an E. county of Wisconsin, bor- dering on Lake Michigan and drained by Ke- waunee and Kcd rivers ; area, 360 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 10,128. It has a rolling surface and a fertile soil, and is well wooded. The chief productions in 1870 were 120,065 bushels of wheat, 21,123 of rye, 73,554 of oats, 58,866 of potatoes, 20,636 of peas and beans, 124,091 Ibs. of butter, and 5,110 tona of hay. There were 842 horses, 2,407 milch cows, 1,940 working oxen, 2,582 other cattle, 1,546 sheep, and 3,865 swine ; 3 breweries, 5 flour mills, and 10 saw mills. Capital, Kewaunee. KEWEEJVAW, a N. W. county of the upper peninsula of Michigan, occupying the extremity of Keweenaw point, which is surrounded by Lake Superior on all sides except the S. W., and including Isle Royale ; area, about 575 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,205. The surface is hilly, and near the centre mountainous. Sandstone underlies a portion of it. It is productive of copper, and mining is the principal occupation of the people. In 1870 there were 6 mines, producing to the value of $823,447, 6 quartz mills, and a manufactory of explosives and fire- works. In 1872 the yield was 1,836 tons of ore. Capital, Eagle River. KEWKIANC, or Kinkiang, a town of China, in the province of Kiangsi, on the Yangtse, near the N. end of Lake Poyang, 227 m. S. W. of Nanking. It takes its name from the nine rivers which flow from the adjacent moun- tains. This situation, commanding the trade of Lake Poyang, induced Lord Elgin in 1860 to propose the place as an open port, it being the nearest outlet of the green tea district, of which the export rose in 1868 to 9,000,000 Ibs., and of black tea to nearly twice as much. The shipments subsequently declined consider- ably, and the total exports in 1871 did not exceed the value of $4,000,000, the imports, however, reaching $12,000,000. The town suffered greatly from the Taeping rebellion, and was almost entirely destroyed when it was recaptured by the imperial troops ; but it soon recovered. The overflow of the Yang- tse in several consecutive seasons had filled the place in 1870 with fugitives from inundated districts, and with vagabonds and Mohamme- dan fanatics, who destroyed missionary chapels, but were put down with the aid of war vessels. The British settlement fronts the river, and the remains of the Chinese town are back of it, with a new temple built by the emperor, con- taining a memorial of a general who fell in the siege. The American house of Russell and co. maintains here a fine fleet of river steamers, and controls the carrying trade on the Yangtse and on Lake Poyang. The shipping in 1871 comprised 320 American and 92 English steam- ers, and 23 American and 65 English sailing vessels. Kewkiang is only a subsidiary port of Shanghai, and the navigation is liable to be impeded by low water and sand bars, requiring the transshipment of cargoes at Hukow, 16m. below Kewkiang, at the mouth of Lake Poyang. KEY, Francis Scott, an American poet, born in Frederick co., Md., Aug. 1, 1779, died in Baltimore, Jan. 11, 1843. He was educated at St. John's college, Annapolis, and com- menced the practice of the law in Frederick City. Subsequently he removed to Washing- ton, where he was for many years district at- torney of the District of Columbia. As a song writer he is chiefly known by " The Star-Span- gled Banner," a popular national lyric, suggest- ed and partially written while the author was detained in the British fleet during the bom- bardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, of which he was an anxious and interested wit- ness. A collection of Ids poems was published in New York in 1857. In 1874 James Lick of San Francisco gave $150,000 for a monument to Key in that city. KEY, Thomas Hewitt, an English scholar and educator, born in Southwark, March 20, 1799. He graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1821, and for two or three years was engaged in studying medicine in Guy's hospital, Lon- don. In 1824 he accepted the professorship of mathematics in the university of Virginia, but, the climate not agreeing with his health, he returned to England in 1827. The next year, on the founding of the university of Lon- don, he was elected to the chair of Latin, and held the post for 13 years. He then became head master of the school in the university, and professor of comparative grammar, which positions he still occupies (1874). He has con- tributed largely to philological literature in the way of reviews, pamphlets, essays, &c. ; he had a spicy controversy with Donaldson in regard to the latter's " Varronianus ;" and he was engaged for many years on a new and full " Latin-English Lexicon." He has also pub- lished a "Latin Grammar " (1843-'6), "Philo- logical Essays" (1868), and "Language, its Origin and Pevelopment " (1874). KEY ISLANDS, or Ki, a group of islands in the Indian archipelago, 50 m. W. of the Arroo islands, in lat. 6 S., Ion. 133 E. The largest are the Great Keys, with mountains 3,000 ft. high, which are supposed to contain gold. Lit- tle Key and other smaller islands are level and fertile. Along the coast is a mixture of races, the Malays predominating. The interior is inhabited by the Haraforas, who are laborious agriculturists. The islands are annually visited by coasting vessels from the Moluccas and other islands for the shipment of tortoise shell, birds' nests, and other products. The Dutch resident at Amboyna occasionally superintends the af- fairs of the islands, though they are virtually independent. They were explored in 1870 by the Italian navigator Cerrute. KEYSER, Mouse de, a Belgian painter, born in Sandvliet, province of Antwerp, in 1813. He is the son of a peasant, and was enabled by the generosity of a lady who recognized his talents to pursue his studies at the academy in Antwerp. His first picture was a " Christ on the Cross," painted in 1834, for a Roman