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PALATINATE 



MIMIC I 'me edifices. The 



|..il -il-i de justice in Paris u a huge 

 pile on the tic de la Git*. It u 

 mostly Mio.lein. luit the Mock con 

 i mi- the Siiinte ChapcJIe and other 

 nieiliev al erections. 



.\nothrr notable palaia de ' 

 is the one at Brussels. It was built 

 l>rate the 50th anniversary 

 of r.d JMI MI'S existence aa a 

 separate kingdom. Designed by 

 Jacques Poelaert, it was be 

 1866 and opened in 1883. The 

 eentral feature is the dome that 

 crowns this pyramidal structure ; 

 but the architectural detail of the 

 main front consists of purely classic 

 forms, with an adroit admixture of 

 Assyrian or Egyptian. See Brus- 

 sels ; Law ( 'ourts. 



Palais Royal. Palace in Paris. 

 It was designed by Jacques Le- 

 mercier for Cardinal Richelieu. 

 The original building, begun in 

 l(i-".), consisted of an entrance 

 front, with a courtyard enclosed 

 by buildings behind it, continued 

 in a main court, with gardens, 

 now public, at the rear. During 

 Richelieu's life it was known as the 

 Palais Cardinal. The palace 

 suffered from restoration, and in 

 1871 part of it was destroyed. It 

 was subsequently the home of the 

 Orl6ans family, and later housed 

 the Conseil d'Etat 



Palamjum o! the tyi 



grown. The town, 83 m. N. ol 

 Ahmadabad, is the headquarters 

 of the Palanpur agency, and is a 

 riy. junction for the branch line 

 to Deesa. Its area is 3,150 sq. 

 m. Pop., state, 470,000; town, 

 17,200. 



Palanquin OR PAI.KI (Skt. 

 paryanka, a bed). Eastern con- 

 veyance for one person, in the 

 form of a litter, borne on the 

 shoulders of two, or more gener- 

 ally four men, by means of poles 

 passed through rings at each end. 



Palais Royal, Paris. 



The main building of the old Palais Royal, now occupied 

 by, and called, the Conseil d'Etat 



Palamedes. In Greek legend, 

 a hero who fought on the Greek 

 side in the Trojan War, noted for 

 his sagacity and inventiveness. 

 He is not mentioned in Homer. 

 Hated by Odysseus, he was put to 

 death on a trumped-up charge of 

 treachery. Pron. Palla-mee-deez. 



Palamkotta, PALAMCOTTAH OR 

 PALAYAM-KOTTAI. Town of Madras 

 Presidency, India, in Tinnevelly 

 dist. An inland town, it is the dist. 

 headquarters, an important road 

 junction, and on the rly. line from 

 Tuticorin and Madras to Travan- 

 core. Pop. 44,900. 



Palanpur. Native state and 

 town of India, in Gujarat, Bom- 

 bay prov. The state lies between 

 Baroda and Raj pu tana, and is 

 crossed by the rly. from Mehsana, 

 I '..i nula. to A jr. ic r - Merwara. 

 Wheat, rice, and sugar-cane are 



Originally open, it is now an 

 enclosed box, with sliding panels 

 or latticed shutters. 



Palar. River of Mysore and 

 Madras, India. It rises in Mysore, 

 cuts through the E. Ghats and 

 reaches the Bay of Bengal, 50 m. 

 S. of Madras city. Usually the 

 whole of the water is utilised for 

 irrigation, and none Hows to the 

 sea. It supplies water to the 

 Kolar goldfields. The chief en- 

 gineering work is the anicut or 

 dam at Arcot. Its length is 230 in. 



Palate. Roof of the mouth, 

 separating the cavity of the nose 

 from the mouth. It consists of the 

 hard palate in front, formed 

 mainly by the two palate bones, 

 and the soft palate behind, con- 

 sisting of muscular tissues be- 

 tween two layers of mucous 

 membrane. It is prolonged into a 



pointed structure, the uvula, 

 which hangs downwards and can 

 be seen at the back. The soft 

 palate shuts off the pharynx from 

 the cavity of the mouth. During 

 the act of swallowing food or of 

 coughing, the soft palate is drawn 

 up so as to cover the entrance of 

 the nasal cavity. See Anatomy; 

 Cleft Palate ; Mouth. 



Palatinate (Ger. PJalz). Name 

 given to the district in Germany 

 ruled by the count palatine of the 

 Rhine. It lay on both sides of that 

 river, about midway between its 

 source and its mouth, and its capi- 

 tals were Heidelberg and later 

 Mannheim. It obtained a separate 

 existence in the 10th or llth cen- 

 tury. In 1214 the Palatinate passed 

 into the possession of the Wittels- 

 bachs, the family ruling over 

 Bavaria, and for some years the 

 two countries were united. In 1 2.V 

 they were separated, and the Pala- 

 tinate had a ruler of its own. In 

 1329, by treaty, the elector palatine 

 obtained a piece of N. Bavaria to 

 add to his lands; henceforward 

 this was called the Upper, and his 

 older possession the Lower or 

 Rhenish Palatinate. 



The elector palatine Frederick 

 V, the son-in-law of James I of 

 Great Britain, was the unfortunate 



Premolors 



Canines 



Uolars 



Palate. Diagram indicating relative 



positions of the teeth and the 



palate bones 



