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PKKAMBULATION 



1'KKCIVAL 



mo*tly Malay* and Chine**, increased from 65,880 

 in l*7 to 214.254 in IKUI. The capital i Kwala 

 Kn*ar Taipinu and Kint are tin- principal tin- 

 lulng town*. Tnere are 7<> mil.- of niilw ay. The 

 ltriliu have maile many mil.- of g<id >"->'l- -"' 

 they Iwgnn i". eo.-ni 'ili.- country. Tin- murder 



of J. \V. Birrh, llif lir-l llriti-h i.-idc it. in UTC 

 nrMlAt<-d a punitive inilitaiy expedition in IH76. 

 The Mate i* now in a highly pn-perou- condition, 

 exporting to the annual value of I5,000.000, and 

 ^V^t^itp (o |ii.<"i.'"i > l>k- ii\ M'Viir 

 1 1877 I nii'l 



dwarf-perche or darterx ( Micro|>erea, Percina, S 



the ininiitet lishex, Mterovere 



( irfTT ) anl Sweltenham ( IK94 ). 



Pi ruinhtilnllon. s.-.- |(.HMIS(HKATIM. mi 



PcrjniH-lr*. See HAMHI'INIT. 



Perception, in phil.ophical usage, may 

 mean internal |-ic.-ption. the nppn-hen-ion of any 

 m.idifiraliiii .imnex* : but it usually refers 



to external perception, the recognition of an ex- 

 ternal object by mean* of the ense something 

 ioon- than *en*ation, and including an element of 

 judgment or the comjiaring power. 



Two great dispute* connect thcm-elvi-s with tver 

 ception. both nused into prominence by Hcrkeley. 

 Tne Brat U the origin of our judgments of the 

 dUtancM and real magnitude* of visible Ixxlies ; 

 llerkeley maintaining, in op|Ki-ition to ilie common 

 pinion on this subject, that thejw were learned 

 ;i-rience, and not known by the mere act of 

 vUion (eee VISION ). The second question relate* 

 to tin- ground* we have for asserting the exi-tcnee 

 of an external and material world, nee HKKKKI.KY, 



K\NT. Lull; also I'SM IMl i*.N . PHILOSOPHY. 



Perceval. Si-KNfKR. KnglUh minister, was 

 id.- Mvond Min of the second Karl of Egniont, and 

 vim. bm in 1-omlon. November I, 1762. He wa* 

 nlnraled at Harrow and Trinity College, Cain 

 bridge, and waa culled to the liar at Lincoln's Inn 

 * He coon obtained a reputation aa a 

 diligent lawyer, and in 1796 be entered parliament 



thampton. anil became a strong sup|irter 

 of Pitt. In the Addington administration lie was 

 made Solicitor -general in IXOI and Atlotnev 

 general in 1802, and in the I'm t land admini-tra 



lion of 1807 he beca Chancellor of the l'.\ 



rhe>]uer, and wa* even then the real head of the 

 orerumcnt, l-ing much tin-led by (ieorge III. 

 fr hi* *Uwdfa*t o|>|ition to the Catholic claims. 

 On the death of the Duke of Portland in IMK) 



.1 became premier also, and retained ollice 

 till hi. tragic death, llth May IM-J. when he was 

 *bot dead entering the lobby of the House of 

 Common*, alxiiit live in the atti-imxin. b\ a l.i\er 

 (ml broker named Hellingham, whoHO lome* had 

 turned hi* head. Pem-val's death was rather a 

 private than * public calamity. He wa* a man of 

 |.,t ].-. inii-giiiy in lii- public nml private cl. 



ugh an i-'' lainenlary debalei. hi- 



abilitim were only nn>lerate and hi* view* were 

 narrow 



, Prrch < I'trm), a genn* of spinv finned or acan- 

 thnptermMi Banea, well represented by the Kresh 

 water I'errh t /'. J> H nnl,l,.\. The members of tin- 

 large family i IVrcida) to which the perch U-long* 

 art- carnivoroM flahea, frequenting the fre*h water* 

 i.U of temperate and tropical region- The 

 hn.lv i. omewhnt ...mi.re*w-d ; the .pimm- dorsal 

 hn i well devel.n.l : tlw ventral (in- are thoracic 

 in poitl<>n ,re -imple and conical . 1 here 



are no Urlirl. The-- character* are poMemetl by 

 many | i. i, hk<- i,-l,.-- -..m.- of which MwdiHHM 

 in pufmle article* e.g. the Ha** ( Ubr., 

 Perch (Utas)of the Nile, (iange*. A. n... I'.k.- 

 nil (UBteunt)i the Sea-perch (Serranu*); 

 the Murray Cod and Hanuku (Ollgon,^ 

 ...W (Orjmte*). Ac. Of American Percidje 

 the 'Kla*rjre' or yellow pike' (Slitoftedioti 

 nrrrvm) i* largmt and mn*t importMt. while the 



liiln meiixin in^> only an inch ami a haft. 



The tti-li water peix-h I- widely dUtiihiited in 

 lakex. |ioiulx, and river in Kit rope. North Asia, 

 and Ninth America, and is common in many pan- 

 of Britain. It i* of agreeni-h lnnwn colour alnive 

 and golden yellow on the under part*, with M\ or 



IVrch (1'rraijturiatilu). 



seven indistinct dark hands on the hark. In 

 length it nieawires almut 18 inches, and it> height 

 is alMint a third of this. It sometimes weighs from 

 three to five poundM, and a prize of nine pounds 

 hits IM?<'II n-eorded. Aiming its characteristic- 

 may l>e noted the small villifonn backward tiirneil 

 teeth, their jireHence on the palatines and vomer, 

 their ah-enre from the tongue, the two dorsal tins, 

 of which the first has thiiteen or fourteen spines. 

 ami the .-mall scales on the body. The perch 

 love* xtill waters, ami thrives well in ponds, at the 

 i-o-i. however, of smaller fishes. It also feeds on 

 in-eei-. worm-, .Vc. It can endure removal from 

 the water for a considerable time. The eggs are 

 laid in sprine,, and are attached in long viscid 

 MI in;:- to water-weed*. The number of eggs in 

 one s|iawn may exceexl a million. As an edihle 

 li-h the perch Ws a good reputation, eating lies! 

 with lemon -juice and cayenne-pepper, but the 

 American variety is less esteemed. Of species 

 distinct from /'. Jtni-inlilix little is known. The 

 so-called (.'limbing IVreh (q.v.) i se|Miratcly 

 treated. 



Perch, ajneasiire of length. See Hull. 



Perclval. .IAMKS (!ATKS, an American pm-i, 

 wax IMIIII at Kensington, Connecticut, 15th Sep- 

 temher 1705, graduated at Yale in 1815, at the 

 head of his clawt. and afterwards studied l>otan\ 

 and medicine. Hut his heart was not in lierUs 

 and physic, and although he practised -or rather 

 advertised his willingness to practise l>oth in 

 Kensington and in Charleston, S.C., very few 

 nal .-nil- dragged him from his favourite 

 -tinlie-. Hi* poem- I'mnn thru.-i and ( '//> appeared 

 at Charleston in \X-2~2. Two yeai-s Inter he tilled 

 for a few months the chair of Chemistry at \Vc-i 



Point : hut he found the duties heavy and irksi , 



and took him-elf t<- I'.o-ton. and then to Ne\\ 

 Haven. There the third part of I '/in was published 

 IVrcjval afterwards divided his attention 

 )! \\ei-n hi* verses and geology, and as he grew 

 older he gave more mid more of his time to the 

 new lo\e. the \i-ilile result- iM'ing Ue|Mirts on the 

 (ieology of Connecticut (1842) and of Wisconsin 

 These are valuable but very dry. and in 

 delicious contrast to his poems, which How freely 

 and with volume. ,i n d on whose fluent, half-care- 

 le*s line* their author's learning is lionie as easily 

 aa tree* on a river in tl.KMl. His Dreatii of I'";/ 

 aj.|H-ared in 1843, and occasional lyrics for a long 

 time after. He wa* ap|x>intd geologist of ^'is- 

 oii>in in 1854. and died there at Ha/el Cieen. on 

 'il May ls.'i<i. Hi* collected works were published in 

 I8N, hi* Lifr .,,! !.,n, r>. by .(. H. AVard, in 1866. 



