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* KELP-CRAB. 436 KEMBLE. KELP-CKAB. A name given cm the Pacific Coa!>L lo ii rallior large orab (Epialtus inoduc- iiis). It is used as food by llie natives along the coast, but lias not yet found its way into the San Fiauciseo markets. It ranges from Puget Sound to iloiiterey, and is said to be easily rec- ognized by its smooth squarish sliell or carapace, which bears two distinct teeth on cacli sidi'. It is the most common maioid crab of California and Oregon, inhabiting rocky shores just below low-water mark. KELPFISH. Any of many small fishes in various |KUis of the world which frequent beds of kelp near shore, and wliose colors as a rule protectively accord with the colors of the sea- weeds. In California the name is given dis- tinctively to several blennioid fishes of the genus Gibbonsia, and especially to the large related bicnny. llclcrosticluis rostnitus, which is caught for market. It is 10 inches long, and is trans- lucent reddish l)rowii, marked with many patches and streaiis of light and shade. KELP-GOOSE. A goose (eMocphiiiiu itnturc- tica) of the Falkland Islands and Patagonia, resembling the brant, and closely allied to the Magellanic and several other species of the South- ern Ileiiiis])here. KEL'PIE. A Scottish word denoting a water- sprite, usually in the form of a horse, which was l)elieved by the superstitious to forewarn liy pre- ternatural lights and sounds those who are des- tined to be drowned in the vicinity where it ap- peared to them. KELP-PIGEON. A sailor's name for the sheathbill (q.v. ). KELPS. The large bro^Ti algae (also called devil's-aprons) in the order Laniinariales. See AlG.E ; Pll.EOFHYCF.E. KEL'SEY. Francis Wii.let (1858—). An American Latinist, born at Ogdcn. X. Y. He was graduated at the I'niversity of Rochester (1880), and later studied in Europe. Since 1889 he has been professor of Latin at the University of Michigan. He is editor of many Greek and Latin text-books for schools (Xeno]ihon, Cirsar. Cicero, Lucretius, Ovid), joint editor with Professor Gardner, of (he University of Oxford, of a series of Iltnulhookn (if Arclin'olofJii nnd Aiitiipdiirf!, and translator of I'diiijirii, Its Life find Art, l)y Augustus Man (181)!)). He has also contributed articles to various educational journals. KEL'SO. A market-to^vn in Roxburghshire, Scotland, on the Tweed, 42 miles southeast of Edinburgh ("Map: Scotland. F 4). Its trade is chiefly agricultural ; its industries include eoach- building, fishing-tackle making, and the manufac- ture of agricultural implements. It contains in- teresting remains of the Tironensian abbey founded in 1126 by King David I., which was destroyed by the English in 154.t; on the opposite bank of the Tweed are the ruins of Roxburgh Castle. Population of police burgh, in 1901, 4000. KELT (Scottish). Young salmon in a certain stage of growth. See Salmon. KELTIC CHURCH. See Celtic Chtrch. KEL'TON. .Tniix CiNNiNGH.^M (1S28— ). An American soldier, born in Delaware County. Pa. He graduated at West Point in 18.51 : undertook frontier service as a lieutenant of infantry in Minnesota, Kansas, and Dakota for six years, and then returned to W est Point as instructor in the use of small arms. His career in the Civil War began at Saint Louis (1801), where he was a jiurcnasing agent for the Western Depart- ment, but the same year he was made colonel of the Nintli Missouri Volunteers, a commission he held until 1802, when he became assistant a4ju- tant-gciieral on the stall of ilajor-tJeneial Ilal- leck. For his valuable services, active and executive, he was brevetted brigadier-general in the Regular Army (1805), and after the war was a statl' colonel and assistant adjutant-general at Washington, where he invented some improved rides and revolvers that were acce|il<'d by the Ordnance Department. He ])ublishcd a Mdiiiial of the Uai/onet (1801), and other works on mili- tary topics. KELTS. See Celtic Peoples. KELUNG, ke'lung', or KILUNG. A seaport with a good harbor on the north coast of Formosa (q.v.), in latitude 25° 9' N.. longitude 121° 47' E., included in the consular district of Tam- sui (.Map: .Japan, E 7). It lies at the liead of a deep bay, which is guarded by Kelung Island, which lies about two miles oil shore. The scenery behind the town is very striking. The principal export is coal. In 1901 there were 73 coal-mines in the neighborhood (covering an area of 30 square miles), 42 of which were in operaiion. The output in that year was 02,547 tons. The coal produced is brittle, but lias great heating power. There are also five gold-mines in the neighborhood, but in 1901 only three were worked: product 1052 ounces. The sulphur-mines are five miles distant. Kelung is connetted by rail with Dai-hoku (in Chinese Tni-prh). the capital, and with Shin-chiku, 03 miles farther south, and is connected with Tanisui via Dai- hoku. KEL'VIN, Lord. See Thomson, Sir Wil- IIAM. KEMBLE, kem'b'l, Adelaide (1814-79). An English <>]KTa singer and author. Of a famous dramatic family, being a daughter of Charles Kcmble (q.v.), niece of Mrs. Siddons, and the sister of Fanny Kemble, she devoted herself to niusie;il studies, and began public life with great promise as an operatic singer. Her English debut was at Covent Garden, in 1841, after she had already appeared in several Italian cities, with cver-iiicreasing celebrity. In 1843. after a short though brilliant professional career, she married Mr. Edward Sartoris, an Italian gentleman of fortune, and retired to his estates in Italy. She published .1 MVc/, in. a French Counli;/ Uonxe (1807), and other literary work. In May. 1874, her son, Algernon Charles Sartoris, married the daughter of President Grant. Consult: Fanny Kemble (Mrs. Butler), Record of a Girlhood (London. 1878) ; id., Records of Later Life (ib.. 1882). KEMBLE, Charles (1775-18.54). An Eng- lish actor, the youngest son of Roger Kemble (q.v.). Born at Brecon, in South Wales. Xovem- ber 25, 1775. he received his education, like his brother. .John Philip tq.v. ). at Dcmai. and like him also, on his return to England, devoted him- self to the stage. In April. 1794. he made his first appearance at Drury Lane as ]Ialcolni in Mnrheth. In the course oif his career he played a great variety of characters with steadily gi'owing success, being in his earlier parts overshadowed