or Kerasan (the ancient Cerasus), a seaport-town of Asiatic Turkey, on the Black Sea, government of Trebisond, and 75 miles W. by S. of the town of that name, in N. Lat. 40° 57'. 10., E. Long. 38° 24. It is situated on a rocky promontory forming the western boundary of a spacious bay. The town, which is now in a very wretched and ruinous condition, appears to have been formerly a place of considerable strength and importance, and a considerable part of the ancient wall still exists. It has some ship-building, and carries on a small trade in corn with the Crimea. Pop. probably about 3000.

Kerguelen Land, or Island of Desolation, an island of the Indian Ocean, named after its discoverer, Kerguelen, a Frenchman, and visited by Captain Cook in 1779. It is almost totally destitute of vegetation, and has a cold and moist climate. The surface is rugged and mountainous, and the coasts deeply indented by bays and inlets. It is resorted to by numerous wild fowl and seals. N. Lat. 69° 30., E. Long. 49° 20.