a considerable river of Siberia, which has its rise in the government of Tomsk, and, after a course of 500 miles through a low and marshy territory, falls into the Northern Ocean, forming a gulf to which it gives name.

KHUAR, or Hawari, a town of Irak, in Persia, 200 miles north of Ispahan. It is situated on a mountain which separates the province of Irak from that of Mazanderan, and through which there is a narrow pass that takes its name from the town.