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Pontoon. Stages in the construction of a pontoon bridge. 1. Making roadway across the pontoons, 

 ribands or sides o! road. 3. Swinging the pontoon bridge into position as seen in 4. 



lowed by a number of novels, in- 1876-78, he held other livings, and 

 eluding The Promised Land, 1892, was for a time master of a high 



2. Fixing 



Eng. trans. 1896 ; Lucky Peter, 

 which appeared at first in eight 

 volumes, 1898-1904 ; and a drama, 

 Storeholt, 1913. 



Pontoppidan, MORTEN OXEN- 

 BALL (b. 1851). Danish clergy- 

 man and author. Son of a Lutheran 

 rector, and brother of Henrik 

 Pontoppidan, he was born at Ribe, 

 Jan. 3, 1851, and educated at 

 Randers and Copenhagen Univer- 

 sity. Curate of S. Olaf, Elsinore, 



school. At Copenhagen, in 1891, he 

 started a popular religious maga- 

 zine called Free Testimony. A 

 widely read author, his most not- 

 able books include The Garden 

 of Paradise, A Danish Clergyman, 

 and Never Despair. 



Pontremoli. City of Italy, in 

 the prov. of Massa e Carrara. 

 Situated on the river Magra, at the 

 foot of the Apennines, it is 25 m. by 

 rlv. N.E. of Spezia. It contains a 



Pontresina, Switzerland. 



General view of the village, with Roseg Valley and 

 glacier in the distance 



17th century cathedral. There is 

 trade in wine and olive oil. A re- 

 public in the 12th and 13th cen- 

 turies, Pontremoli was captured by 

 the French in 1495. Pop. 14,000. 



Pontresina. Village in the Ber- 

 nina Valley, Upper Engadine, 

 Switzerland, in the canton of 

 Orisons. Situated at an alt. of 

 5,915 ft., 5 m. by rly. S. of Samaden 

 and 4 m. E. of St. Moritz, it is a 

 favourite tourist resort in summer 

 and in winter. The church of S. 

 Maria has a wooden roof dating 

 from 1497. Pop. 500. 



Pontus. Ancient dist. of Asia 

 Minor. Lying along the Black Sea, 

 it was a monarchy about 400 B.C., 

 and was a prosperous country, 

 strong and independent, until its 

 king, Mithradates the Great, was 

 conquered by Pompey, 63 B.C. 

 Part of it became a Roman pro- 

 vince, and the rest survived as a 

 state under a native ruler until 

 A.D. 63, when this, too, was taken 

 by Rome. Amasia was the capital, 

 and afterwards Pharnacia. 



Pontypool. Urban dist. and 

 market town of Monmouthshire, 

 England. It is 8 m. from Newport, 

 with stations on the G.W. and 

 L. & N.W. Rlys., being also served 

 by a canal which connects it with 

 Newport. The buildings include 

 S. James's Church and the town 

 hall. It stands on the border of the 

 S. Wales coalfield, and the chief 

 industries are coal-mining and 



