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OWHYHEE. One of the Sandwich 

 Islands. See Hawaii. 



PALEMBANG. A settlement in the 

 southern part of Sumatra. 



PA. Pennsylvania. 



PACHACAMAC. A small town not far 

 from Lima, Peru. It was the scene 

 of some of the depredations of Pi- 

 zarro ; in the time of the conquest it j 

 was the site of a great temple to the 

 god Pachacamae, part of the ruins 

 of which still remain. 



PAGOSA. A village and springs in S. 

 W. Colorado. 



PALAMOW. A district in the Presi- 

 dency of Bengal, Hindostan. . 



PALEXQUE. A village in Chiopas, 

 near which are the wondrous ruins 

 of ancient palaces, idols, etc., which, 

 be it spoken to the shame of the 

 United States, are, along with those 

 of Copan, allowed to decay in the 

 wilderness whilst a little energy, 

 and a trifle of the money annually 

 scandalously squandered by Gov- 

 ernment, would transmit them to a 

 place of safety in some public insti- 

 tution. 



PACIFIC COAST. West coast of N. 

 America. 



PACIFIC SLOPE. That part of the 

 United States west of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



PALAWAN. An island in Malaysia, 

 north-east of Borneo and south-west 

 of Mindora and Luzon. 



PALESTINE. The Holy Land ; in 

 the south-western part of Asiatic 

 Turkey. 



PANAMA. The narrow tract of coun- 

 try which connects North and South 

 America. 



PAPUA. See New Guinea. 



PARA. A district in the north of 

 Brazil ; a city near the mouth of 

 the Para River, in northern Brazil. 

 This region is enormously rich in 

 Lepidoptera and other orders of 

 insects. 



PAKAGUAY. One of the States of 

 S. America ; it is south of Bolivia, 

 and north-east of Buenos Avres. 



PARANA. A district in the south of 

 Brazil ; its eastern boundary is the 

 Atlantic. 



PATAGONIA. The southernmost part 

 of S. America. 



PEBAS. A town on the Amazon, in 

 the south-east of Ecuador. 



PEKIN. The capital city of the Chi- 

 nese Empire, is in the north-east of 

 China proper, near the Great Wall. 



PELEW ISLANDS. A group of small 

 islands in Polynesia, northward of 



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New Guinea, and eastward of the 

 Philippines. 



PENANG. See Pulo Penang. 

 PENNA., \ One of the Uni- 



PENNSYLVANIA. j ted States of N. 

 Am. ; it is south of New York, west 

 of New Jersey, north of Maryland, 

 and east of Ohio. 



PERNAMBUCA. One of the north- 

 eastern provinces of Brazil ; its 

 principal city of same name is of 

 considerable commercial importance. 

 PERS., ) Lies east of Asiatic Tur- 

 PERSIA. j key, north of the Persian 

 Gulf which separates it from Ara- 

 bia west of Afghanistan and Be- 

 loochistau, and south of Georgia 

 and Turan, or Turkistan. 

 PERU. One of the western of the South 

 American States, bordering on the 

 Pacific; it lies south of Ecuador, 

 and west of Brazil and Bolivia. 

 PHIL., 'i One of the prin- 



PHILA., Vcipal cities of the 



PHILADELPHIA. J United States of 

 N. America ; situated on the Dela- 

 ware River, in the south-eastern 

 part of Pennsylvania. It is here 

 that the PHIL A. ACADEMY OF 

 NATURAL SCIENCES, and the AM- 

 ERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 are located, and have built and 

 sustained themselves, amidst all 

 sorts of difficulties, entirely by the 

 means and exertions of their mem- 

 bers ; for to look for aid to the 

 United States Government, in any- 

 thing that is great or good, would 

 be as fruitless as to look to the 

 Government of Dahomey. 



