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 KLIKITAT Oottesdienstordnung in der deutschen KircJie lutherischen Bekenntnisses (Rostock, 1847) ; Liturgische Abhandlungen (4 vols., 1854-'8) ; Das Buch Ezechiel (2 vols., Wismar, 1864-'5) ; and Das Buch Daniel (Schwerin, 1868). KLIKITAT, a S. county of Washington ter- ritory, separated from Oregon by the Colum- bia river ; area, 3,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 329. The W. part is occupied by the Cascade range, and in the extreme N. W. is Mount Adams, 9,570 ft. high. In the S. E. is Kliki- tat prairie, watered by the Pattaha, a branch of the Yakima. In the W. part are the Kliki- tat, Womumchee, and White Salmon rivers. The best portion of the county is occupied by the reservation of the Yakima Indians, and it also contains the Simcoe agency. The chief productions in 1870 were 1,818 bushels of wheat, 2,635 of oats, 3,263 of barley, 1,373 of potatoes, and 455 tons of hay. There were 390 horses, 879 milch cows, 2,480 other cattle, and 753 swine. Capital, Rockland. RLIRITATS, a roving tribe of Indians, north of the Columbia river and east of the Cascade mountains, composed of five bands, and num- bering between 2,000 and 3,000. They are great gamblers for hyaqua, or shell money, and are restless and troublesome. They join- ed the Yakimas, with whom they are closely united, in the war of 1855, killed the agent Bolen, and took part in the surprise of Step- toe, but were defeated by Wright. They were soon after placed on White Salmon reservation, and are now on the Yakima reservation near Fort Simcoe, Washington territory, and are regarded as part of the Yakima nation. KLIN, a town of European Russia, on the Sestra, in the government and 46 m. N. W. of Moscow ; pop. in 1867, 6,580. It has an im- perial palace, and was formerly the hereditary seat of the Romanoff family. KLINGER, Friedrich Maximilian von, a German poet, born in Frankfort, Feb. 19, 1753, died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 25, 1831. He was edu- cated at Giessen, began to write for the stage at Weimar and Leipsic, was sub-lieutenant in the volunteer corps of Walter in the war of the Bavarian succession, and went from Weimar to St. Petersburg in 1780, where Under Catha- rine II. he became colonel, under Paul major general and director of the corps of cadets, and under Alexander in 1811 lieutenant general. He was in active service nearly 40 years. He was the most conspicuous representative of that excited period of German literature called the "storm and pressure period," which in fact took its name from his drama Sturm und Drang (1775). An edition of his select works was published at Stuttgart (12 vols., 1842). KLIPSPRINGER (Dutch, cliff springer), a South African field antelope, oreotragua salta- trix (Bodd.). The male is about 3$ ft. long and 22 in. high at the shoulder; the head is short and broad, with a tapering nose and large bald muffle; the horns, which exist only in the males, are about 5 in. long, slender, vertical, KLOPP 25 nearly parallel, acute, with a few rings at the base ; the tear bag is arched and transverse ; the ears are pointed, nearly as high as the horns ; the eyes are full, lively, and dark hazel ; the hoofs are small, square, and compressed, with large and blunt false hoofs ; the tail very short. The body and limbs are robust ; the hair is thick, wavy, erect, and quill-like, form- ing a natural pad to protect the body from bruises and falls in their dangerous retreats; the mammse are two. The color of the hair is grayish, brown at the end, with a short yel- low tip, giving the general hue as a brown grizzled with yellow ; the lower parts are whi- tish, and the edge of the ears and feet above the hoofs black; the color varies in intensi- ty according to season. The females resemble the males, except in the absence of horns. These animals live in pairs. They possess the climbing propensities and sure-footedness of the goats, living among rocks inaccessible to Klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix). man and dogs, and springing like the cha- mois from one precipice to another with great agility and rarely failing accuracy. They used to be abundant in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, but have been so hunted that they are now driven to the mountainous regions of the interior; their venison is considered the best in the country, and their elastic hair is in great demand for stuffing saddles. KLOPP, Onno, a German historian, born in Leer, East Friesland, Oct. 9, 1822. He studied at Bonn, Berlin, and Gottingen, and from 1845 to 1858 was a teacher at the gymnasium of Osnabruck. He was employed in 1866 by King George of Hanover in various missions, and followed him into exile. His works in- clude Geschichte Ostfrieslands (3 vols., Han- over, 1854-'8), Konig Friedrich II. von Preus- sen und die deutsche Nation (Schaffhausen, 1860), and Tilly im Dreissigjahrigen Kriege (2 vols., Stuttgart. 1861). He edited, under