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PERCH I'ERROT. 



Algotikin family, at the time of the settlement of Con needed for market. It is a favorite ush with the 



neotkut were found around the Thames River. Tin y anglers of those shores. M.) 



a branch of the Mohegans and were noted as PERKINS, CHARLES CAM MIAN (! art- 



ao|iiin-d a supremacy among the critic, was Iwrn at Boston, March 1, Is".;. 



warriors. They acquired a supremacy among the critic. 



native tribes and made treaties with the Dutch an : Harvard in 1843, and went to Rome, and 



English, li-iv. Kndieott, however, thought it neces- afterwards to Paris, where he studied painting ante 



sary to send an ex|>editioii among them, and thence- Ary Sehcffer. During other visits to Europe he 



forward thcv were hostile to the whites. In May, studied etching, which he used in illustrating his 



1637, Capt. John Mas. HI. beinp sent against them from works on Italian art. His life was devoted to promot- 



HartforJ. surprised and burned their fort near Groton. inp the culture of the fine arts, especially in Boston, 



Several hundred men. women, and children perished, where he assisted in founding the mils, urn for that 



but the rest of the tribe continued the war until they purpose. From 1869 to 1879 ne was praBdenl of the 



were o-. I in l-'airti, M -\vamp. Manv of them Boston art club, and from 1875 to 1880 of the Handel 

 were sold as slave* in the West Indies, others were j and Haydn society. He was accidentally killed by the 



mltm ! 



finally 

 partly 



later \ 



removed to Oneida co., N. Y., and thence to Green 

 Bay. Wisconsin. 



I'KKCH, a well-known game-fish, which is very 



,- , ,.-.. TIT common in the rivers of North Amer- 



, io '<*, Europe, and Northern Asia. It is 

 Am Rep ) a member of the PrrMr, an extensive 

 family of acanthoptcrygious fishes. The 

 perch has an elongated body, covered with ctenoid 

 scales, with two dorsal fins, the first having 13 or 14 

 spines, the second being flexible, while the anal fin is 

 small and far back, and the ventrals thoracic, each 

 with one spine and five rays. The skeleton has more 

 than 24 vertebrae. All the teeth arc villiform, with- 

 out canines, occurring on the palatine bones and 



putcfmil Monument* in /?a/t/(]883) ; Ilistoriail Hand- 



book of Italian Sculptort (1883). 



PERKINS, JUSTIN (1805-1869), an American mis- 

 sionary, was born at West Springfield. Mass.. March 

 12, 1805. He graduated at Amhcrst College in 1829, 

 and after studying theology at Andover was sent to 

 Persia in 1833 by the American Board of Commission- 

 ers of Foreign Missions, lie established himself' at 

 Oroomiah and labored especially among the Nestorians, 

 into whose language he translated the Bible and several 

 other works. In 1842 he returned to the I'nit.'d 

 States, bringing the Nestorian bishop, Mar Yohanan. 

 After another visit in 1848 he finally returned in 1869, 

 and died at Chieopee, Mass., on the last day of that 



the vomer, the tongue being toothless. There have I year. In English he published Eight Years in Persia 

 been 14 species of perch described, all inhabiting] (1843), and Minfintnin/ Life in Persia (1861). 

 "" ' ' '- --" PE 



fresh water. Of these the American yellow perch 

 (Perm flavescens) is generally held to be the only true 

 species in the United States. It is very widely dis- 

 tributed in the lakes, ponds, and streams of the Mid- 

 dle and Northern States and the British provinces, is 

 easily taken by hook or net. and is considered an ex- 

 cellent table-fish. This species is ordinarily below 10 

 in. in length, but is occasionally found of 12 to 15 in. 

 in length and 2} Ibs. weight. It is of a greenish yel- 

 low color on the back and golden yellow on the sides, 

 the back being banded with 6 to 8 transverse dark 

 bands. The under parts are white, the dorsal and 

 caudal fins greenish brown; the pectorals, ventrals. 

 and anal golden orange ; the body compressed and 

 elongated, with the lateral line concurrent with the 

 line of the back. 



As a game-fish the perch is a bold biter and may be 

 taken with worm or small fish, affording fair sport, but 

 requiring no great skill in its capture. It is a favorite 

 fish with rural anglers, and is esteemed a great delicacy 

 in the interior regions where sea-fish are not easily ob- 

 tained. The European yellow perch (P. fluviatilis) is 

 generally distributed in Europe and Northern Asia. It 

 resembles P. flavexanu in coloration, bites well, and is 

 very tenacious of life out of water. Its flesh is con- 

 sidered excellent. It frequents still waters, sometimes 

 descending into brackish, attains in rare cases a weight 

 of 5 pounds, and is exceedingly prolific, more than 

 1,000,000 eggs being 1x> rne in one spawn. 



There are several other fish which arc commonly 

 called perch, such as Corvina osciila, the white perch 

 of the Ohio, and Pimotis wilgaris, the bream, to 

 which is often given the name of pond perch. Some 

 sea-fish of the genus Sermnits are also known as 

 perches. There are 26 species in all of these, many 

 of them handsome fish, abundant in the warmer seas. 

 The common American salt-water perch, plentiful 

 around the rocky shores of New England, is Ctenola- 

 liriu arrulen*. This fish has an elongated, scaly body, 

 varying in length from 6 to 10 in. and deviating con- 

 siderably in color. It has a single dorsal fin with 

 strong and piercingly sharp spines, and is an excellent 

 table-fish. Great numbers arc caught in nets or by 

 book, and are kept alive in large Boating cars until 



'ERKINS, THOMAS HANDASYD (1764-1854), mer- 

 chant and philanthropist, was born at Boston, Mass., 

 Dec. 15, 1764. He engaged in the East India trade, 

 and, having acquired great wealth, retired from busi- 

 ness in 1 823. He was for many years a member of the 

 State Legislature, and in later life was a liberal con- 

 tributor to the Mercantile Library, the Massachusetts 

 General Hospital, the Boston Athenaeum, and other 

 public enterprises. In 1827 he projected the Quincy 

 Railway, the first built in the United States. He was 

 active in promoting the erection of the Bunker Hill 

 Monument He gave his mansion on Pearl Street as 

 an asylum for the blind (see BLIND). He died at 

 Boston, Jan. 11, 1854. 



His nephew, JAMES HANDASTD PERKINS (1810- 

 1849), after being a clerk in his counting-room, settled 

 at Cincinnati in 1832, and was successively lawyer, ed- 

 itor, and Unitarian minister. He was president of the 

 Cincinnati Historical Society and published Annul* of 

 the West (1847). 



PEROWNE, JOHN JAMES STEWART, an English 

 clergyman, was born at Burdwan, Bengal, March 13, 

 1823. He is of French Huguenot descent, and was 

 educated at Norwich Grammar School and at Corpus 

 Christi College, Cambridge. He graduated B. A. in 

 1845 and M. A. in 1848, having won several prizes by 

 scholarship. He was elected a Fellow of his college 

 in 1849, and was select preacher to the University in 

 1 853. and later years. He was also professor in King's 

 College. London, and assistant preacher at Lincoln's 

 Inn. In 1862 he was made vice-principal of St. Da- 

 vid's College, Lam peter, and held that position ten 

 years. In 1873 he was made a Fellow of Trinity Col- 

 lege and in 1875 Hulsean professor of divinity at Cam- 

 bridge. In 1878 he was made dean of Peterborough. 

 From 1870 to 1884 he assisted in the revision of the 

 English Old Testament, and he is editor of the Cam- 

 bridge BiUt for Schools (1877, sqq.). He published 

 The Book of Ptnlms. a JVew Translation, v!tli .\ntrs 

 (2 vols., 1864-ti 1 *) ; Hulsean Lectures on Imwu-inlihi 

 (1869) and some sermons, besides contributions to 

 various periodical". 



PERROT. GEORGE, French archaeologist, was born 

 at Villeneuve St. Georges, Seine-Oise, Nov. 12, 1832. 



