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 town of a district in which gold is found, but lies on low ground subject to inundation by the river . 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 of the Hwang-ho the country is cultivated . The principal river is the Hwang-ho, and in the mountains to the south of Lan-chow Fu rises the Wei-ho, which traverses Shen-si and flows into the Hwang-ho at Tung-kwan . The chief products 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, groceries, prints and notions were staples sent to Santa Fe; wool, buffalo robes and dried buffalo meat, Mexican silver coin, gold and silver dust and ore came in return .

In 1860 the

trade employed 3000 wagons and 7000 men, and amounted to millions of dollars in value . 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, sweet melons and medicines .