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PAIGNTON 



sir Augustus Page;. 

 British diplomat 



Sir James Paget, 

 British surgeon 



After Uillait 



and in 1841 was transferred to the 

 foreign office. From 1846-52 he 

 was an attache at Paris, after 

 which he was 

 at Athens. 

 Paget was 

 t hen in turn 

 charge d'af- 

 faires at The 

 Hague, Lis- 

 bon, and Ber- 

 I i n , and a 

 minister at 

 Dresden and 

 Copenhagen. 

 From 1867-83 he represented his 

 country at Rome, and from 1884-93 

 was ambassador at Venice. In 1853 

 he was knighted, and he died at 

 Hat field, July 11, 1896. 



Paget, SIR JAMES (1814-99). 

 British surgeon and pathologist. 

 Born at Yarmouth, Jan. 11. 1814 

 he became a 

 student at S. 

 B artholomew's 

 Hospital, Lon- 

 don, 1834, and 

 demonstrator in 

 the hospital 

 1839. He 

 rapidly became 

 famous as a 

 pathologist and 

 surgeon, his 

 lectures, 1847- 

 52, as professor of anatomy at the 

 College of Surgeons, afterwards 

 published in book form, being a 

 standard text-book for many years 

 In 1871 he was made a baronet, 

 and in 1875 president of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. He died 

 Dec. 30, 1899. See Pathology. 



Paget, VIOLET (b. 1856). British 

 novelist. Known by her pen-name 

 of Vernon Lee, she settled in Italy 

 in 1871. She published her first 

 book in 1880, Studies of the 

 Eighteenth Century in Italy. 

 Many of her subsequent works also 

 dealt w&h Italy, including historical 

 sketches and essays. Among these 

 were Euphorion, Essays on Renais- 

 sance, 1884 ; Renaissance Fancies 

 and Studies, 1895; The Spirit of 

 Rome, 1905. She also wrote 

 A Phantom Lover, 1886 ; Haunt- 

 ings, 1890; Genius Loci, 1903, 

 and its sequel The Enchanted 

 Woods, 1904; Louis Norbert, 1914; 

 Satan the Waster, 1920. She also 

 wrote the play Ariadne in Mantua 

 Pagoda. Term in European use 

 denoting a tower-like structure in 

 India and E. Asia. A 16th century 

 Portuguese corruption either of 

 dagoba, a stupa or tope, or of Pers. 

 'ut-kadah, an idol-temple, it desig- 

 ates in India temples with pyrami- 

 1 towers. In Burma it denotes 

 Buddhist paya or sedi, a bell- 

 Ted structure with conical 

 often gilded. The most 



venerated are at Rangoon, Manda- 

 lay. Prome, and Pegu The 

 Siamese phra is bell-shaped, with 

 slender annulet spire, as at Phra 

 Pathom, Ayuthia, or pyramidal, 

 with domed cylindrical turret, as 

 at the Wat-ching in Bangkok. The 

 Japanese square timber-built go- 

 jvnoto retains the Korean form, 

 with an odd number of roofs. 



China perhaps derived its earli- 

 est towers, as at Sian-fu, the old- 

 est extant, from the Babylonian 

 square seven-store} 7 ed ziggurat. 

 The later Chinese taa became 

 octagonal, with an odd number of 

 storeys ; for instance three in the 

 Temple of Heaven at Peking ; 

 seven at Ningpo ; nine in the 

 Porcelain Tower at Nanking, 

 which was destroyed in 1854. The 

 Kew Pagoda, 10-storeyed, erected 

 1761, follows the Chinese pattern. 

 See Japan ; Kew Gardens. 



Pagoda Tree (Sophora }apon- 

 ica). Tree of the natural order 

 Leguminosae. It is a native of 

 China and Japan. The long bluish- 

 green leaves are divided into about 

 a dozen oval leaflets, and the small 

 cream-coloured flowers are lavishly 

 produced in large clusters. The 

 Chinese obtain from the flowers a 

 fine yellow dye, used for dyeing the 

 silk robes of the mandarins. 



Pago Pago. Natural harbour 

 on the S. coast of Tutuila, one of the 

 Samoan Islands. Called also Pango 

 Pango, it belongs to the U.S.A. 

 which has used it as a naval station 

 since 1839. Its right to do so was 

 established by treaty in 1872, and 

 later was allowed to lapse, but in 

 1889 the right of the U.S.A. to the 

 island of Tutuila was recognized by 

 the Berlin General Act. The town 

 is the seat of administration for 

 American Samoa. The harbour is 

 the crater of an extinct volcano. 



Pahang. Easterly Federated 

 Malay State, British Malaya. It 

 has a long coast on the S. China 

 Sea, lies between Johore on the S. 

 and Kelantan and Trengganu on 

 the N., and is separated from the 

 other three states of the Federation 

 by high mts. It consists almost 

 entirely of the basin of the Pahang. 



Pahang was an independent 

 Malay state until 1881, when a 

 British resident was appointed at 

 the sultan's request. Sparsely popu- 

 lated, it has not been exploited. 

 Pekan at the mouth of the Pahang 

 is the seat of the sultan ; Kuan- 

 tan, farther N., is connected by 

 road with Kuala Lipis Kuala 

 Lipis, the administrative capital, 

 is connected by motor road with 

 Kuala Kubu in Selangor, and by 

 rail with Bahan in Negri Sembilan. 

 Its area is 14,000 sq m Pop 

 119,000. See Malaya. 



Pahlavi OR PEHLEVI (Pers. 

 Pahlav, Parthian). Name of a cur- 

 sive script of Aramaic origin used 

 in writing Persian during the Sas- 

 sanian period. It employs a great 

 many Semitic words which were 

 read as their Persian equivalents. 

 The name is also often used for the 

 Persian language of the same 

 period, otherwise called Middle 

 Persian 





Paignton, Devonshire. The sea front, looking across Tor 

 Bay towards Torquay 



Pagoda Tree. Branch with leaves, 



and the flowers from which a yellow 



dye is obtained 



Paignton. Urban dist. and 

 watering-place of Devon, England. 

 It stands on Tor Bay, 2 m. from 

 Torquay, with a station on the 

 G.W. Rly. The chief building is 

 the Perpendicular church of S. 

 John, which con- 

 tains some inter- 

 est i n g features. 

 The Bible Tower 

 is part of the old 

 palace of the 

 bishops of Exeter. 

 It is so called be- 

 cause here Miles 

 Coverdale pre- 

 pared his transla- 

 tion of the Bible. 

 The attractions 

 include a pier and 

 good sands. Pop. 

 11,000. 



