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 KITTERY KLAMATH 21 Potomac, but it may be traced into Alabama, a total length of more than 800 m. Its eleva- tion varies from 800 to 2,500 ft. above the sea. KITTERY, a town of York co., Maine, on the Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth railroad, 42 m. S. W. of Portland, and at the mouth of the Piscataqua river, opposite Portsmouth, N. II., with which it is connected by a bridge and by ferry; pop. in 1870, 3,333. It forms the noted as the seat of a United States navy yard. This establishment is situated on an island in the river within the limits of the town, and contains extensive ship houses, machine shops, rigging lofts, wharves, barracks, and a dry dock which cost $800,000. The town is the birthplace of Sir William Pepperell. It was settled in 1623, and incorporated in 1647. RITTIWARE. SeeGTiLL. RITTO, John, an English Biblical scholar, born in Plymouth, Dec. 4, 1804, died in Cann- statt, Germany, Nov. 25, 1854. He was the son of a mason, and when about 12 years old was rendered incurably deaf by a fall from the roof of a house. Poverty compelled him to enter the workhouse of Plymouth. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, who treated him so cruelly that his indentures were can- celled and he returned to the workhouse. His love of study procured him admission to a col- lege in Islington, and he soon after published by subscription a small volume of miscella- neous writings. Next he went to Exeter to learn the profession of a dentist ; and thence to London, where he was employed in the printing office of the church missionary society. Two years later he went to the society's estab- lishment at Malta, and subsequently he visited Bagdad as a private tutor. There he resided three years, and acquired an intimate acquain- tance with oriental life. Soon after returning to London Charles Knight engaged him first as assistant in preparing serials for the "Library of Useful Knowledge," and afterward in the compilation of other works. Having been seized with paralysis, he retired in 1854 to Cannstatt. In 1844 he received the degree of D. D. from the university of Giessen ; and the British government granted him in 1850 an an- nuity of 100. His principal works are: the "Pictorial Bible" (1835-'8; 2d ed. enlarged, 4 vols. royal 8vo, 1847-'9) ; " Uncle Oliver's Travels " (2 vols. 12mo, 1838) ; " Pictorial His- tory of Palestine" (2 vols. royal 8vo, 1839- '40) ; " Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature " (2 vols. 8vo, 1845-'50) ; " The Lost Senses : Deaf- ness and Blindness" (1845); "Physical Geog- raphy of the Holy Land " (2 vols. 18mo, 1848) ; "Daily Bible Illustrations" (8 vols., 1849-'53). In 1848 he established the "Journal of Sacred Literature," which he edited till 1858. His memoirs have been written by J. E. Ryland (Edinburgh, 1856). KITTLITZ, F. H. yon, baron, a German nat- uralist, born in 1798, died in Mentz, April 10, 1874. He was an officer in the Prussian army, and a nephew of the Russian field marshal Diebitsch, and made with the Russian captain Ltitke a circumnavigation of the globe (1826-'9). He was also a painter and engraver, and pub- lished ornithological and other essays, illus- trated by himself. In 1870, though then in his 72d year, he took charge of a military hospital. His works include Vierundzwanzig Vegetations- ansichten von den Ifusten und Inseln des Stillen Oceans (Wiesbaden, 1850-'52; new ed., Ber- lin, 1862 etseq.} ; Derikwurdiglceiten einer Reise nacli dem russischen America, nacTi MiTcrone- sien und durch KamtscJiatJca (2 vols., Gotha, 1858) ; and Psychologisclie Grundlage fur eine neue PMlosophie der Kunst (Berlin, 1863). MIRIAM. See KEWKIANG. RIU8HIU, Rinsiu, or Ximo, a large island of Japan, separated on the north from the main island by a strait 1|- m. wide, and N. E. from Shikoku or Sikok by a channel 9 m. wide ; length 210 m., greatest width about 150 m. ; area, about 15,000 sq. m. It is surrounded by inaccessible rocks and shallows, dangerous to navigation, and is traversed by many moun- tains, chiefly active volcanoes liable to formi- dable eruptions; one in 1826 caused great loss of life and property. The E. coast is sterile, but most other parts are fertile and well culti- vated, owing to the abundance of rivers, the principal of which is the Kusnayara. Cotton cloth, silk goods, and paper are manufactured. Capital, Nagasaki. RIWI-RIWI. See APTEEYX. RLADNO, a town of Bohemia, 13 m. N. N. W. of Prague, with which it is connected by railway; pop. in 1870, 11,199. It has a castle and several iron works. In the neighborhood are important coal and iron mines. RLAGENFURTH, a town of Austria, capital of the duchy of Carinthia, 40 m. N. K W. of Laybach; pop. in 1870, 15,200. It is the seat of the bishop of Gurk, and has a theological faculty, an episcopal seminary, a gymnasium, a RealscJiule, a deaf and dumb institution, a society of natural history, which has founded a national museum, and a historical society. It has manufactories of woollens, silks, and mus- lins. It is supposed to occupy nearly the site of the Roman Tiburnia, but it first became a place of interest and importance early in the 16th century, when it was fortified by the emperor Maximilian I. Gorgey, after his surrender, was for many years confined at Klagenfurth. RLAMATH, a N. W ; county of California, bordering on the Pacific, bounded N. by Kla- math river, which also intersects it, and trav- ersed by Trinity river ; area, about 2,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,686, of whom 542 were Chinese. The surface is mostly mountainous, and in some places is covered with dense forests of redwood, cedar, spruce, and fir. The val- leys are fertile, and the hilly districts afford good pasturage. Gold mining is prosecuted to a large extent near Klamath, Trinity, and Sal- mon rivers, at Gold Bluff, and in the vicinity of the beach. The Klamath Indian reserve,
 * S. W. extremity of the state, and is chiefly