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KANSK , a town of eastern Siberia, in the government of Yeniseisk, 151 M. by rail E. of Krasnoyarsk, on the Kan River, a tributary of the Yenisei, and on the Siberian highway. Pop. (1897), 7504. It is the chief
district
KAN-SUH, a north-western province of China, bounded N. by Mongolia, E. by Shen-si, S. by Szech'uen, W. by Tibet and N.W. by Turkestan. The boundary on the N. remains undefined, but the:province may be said to occupy the territory lying between 32 30' and 40 N., and ro8 and 98 20' E., and to contain about 260,000 sq. m. The population is estimated at 9,800,000. Western Kan-suh is mountainous, and largely a wilderness of sand and snow, but east
principal
south
chief
1" Kansas "in archaic variants of spelling and pronunciation, Kansaw," and still called, locally and colloquially, the " Kaw." 2 Before Kansas City, first Old Franklin (opposite Boonville), then Ft. Osage, Liberty, Sibley, Lexington, Independence and Westport had successively been abandoned as terminals, as the transfer-point from boat to prairie caravan was moved steadily up the Missouri. Whisky
buffalo
buffalo
trade
KANT of Kan-suh are cloth, horse hides, a kind of curd like butter which is known by the Mongols under the name of wula, musk, plums, onions, dates
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