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Port Adelaide. . Seaport of 

 S. Australia. It stands on an 

 estuary of the Gulf of St. Vincent, 

 and has an excellent harbour and 

 docks accommodating ocean liners. 

 It is a port of call for mail 

 steamers for Europe and Asia, for 

 both Suez and S. African routes. 

 Wheat and other agricultural pro- 

 ducts are exported. Pop. 24,000. 



Portadown. Market town and 

 urban dist. of co. Armagh, Ireland. 

 Ft stands on the Bann, 25 m. from 

 Belfast, with a station on the G.N. 

 of I. Rly. It is a railway junction, a 

 river port, has manufactures of 

 linen and other textiles, and a trade 

 in agricultural produce. Market 

 days, Tues., Wed., and Sat. Pop. 

 11,700. 



Portaels, JEAN FRANCOIS (1818 

 -95). Belgian artist. Born hi Bra- 

 bant, April 30, 1818, he studied art 

 in Brussels and then in Paris. In 

 1841 he won the grand prix de 

 Rome, and in 1847 became head of 

 the art academy at Ghent. For 

 some years he conducted an art 

 school in Brussels, until in 1878 he 

 was made director of the academy 

 there. His many works include 

 portraits, female figures, and 

 studies of Biblical characters and 

 Oriental )'Je. Through his pupils 

 he exercued a great influence on 

 Belgian art. He died in Brussels, 

 Feb. 8, 1895. 



Portage (Fr. porter, to carry). 

 Act of carrying something, also 

 the charge made for the carriage 

 of goods. In N. America a break 

 in the chain of water communica- 

 tions is called a portage because 

 here the goods have to be trans- 

 ferred from the canoes and carried. 

 Portages are often caused by rapids 

 and waterfalls. Many places in 

 N. America bear the name of 

 Portage, e.g. Portage la Prairie, 

 but this is but a relic of their past, 

 as the cutting of canals and the 

 building of railways have done 

 away with these obstacles to 

 transport. 



One of the most important of 

 these portages was in Wisconsin 

 over the tract of land between the 

 rivers Fox and Wisconsin, which 

 here are only 2 m. from each other. 

 The best route from Lake Michigan 

 to the' Mississippi lay along these 

 rivers, and the portage between 

 them was regularly used by Indians 

 and later by Europeans. 



Portage. City of Wisconsin, 

 U.S.A., capital of Columbia co. 

 It is at the head of navigation on 

 the Wisconsin river, 30 m N. of 

 Madison, and is served by the Wis- 

 consin Central and other rlys. and 

 by the ship canal between the 

 Wisconsin and Fox rivers. There 

 is steamboat communication with 

 Green Bay. Pop. (1920) 5,600 



Port Adelaide, South Australia. Harbour and wharves of the third port in 

 the Australian Commonwealth 



Portage La Prairie. City of 

 Manitoba. Canada. Situated 56 m. 

 W. of Winnipeg it is served by the 

 G.T., G.T.P., C.N., and C.P. Rlys. 

 It is the centre of a famous farming 

 district, and its industries include 

 flour and brick making and grain 

 elevators. Pop. 6,500. 



Portalegre. Dist. of E. Portu- 

 gal. Bounded E. by Spain and N. 

 by the Tagus, its area is 2,405 sq. 

 m. Mountainous in the N.E. and 

 S., it is elsewhere level and con- 

 tains the Campo de Benavilla 

 in the S.W. It is traversed by two 

 rly. lines from Lisbon to Spain. 

 Wheat, coal, oil, and wine are pro- 

 duced ; pigs are reared and textiles 

 are manufactured. Pop. 142,000. 



Portalegre. City of E. Portu- 

 gal. The capital of Portalegre 

 dist., it is 8 m. N. of its station on 

 the Lisbon- Badajoz rly. The 

 cathedral, founded 1556, contains 

 fine wood sculptures. The neigh- 

 bourhood is rich in prehistoric and 

 Roman remains. Woollens are 

 manufactured and cork is obtained 

 locally. It is the ancient Ammaia. 

 Pop. 11,600. 



Port Alfred. Seaside resort of 

 the Cape Province, S. Africa. It 

 stands at the mouth of the Kowie 

 river, and is connected by rly. with 

 Grahamstown. It has a public 

 library. The attractions include 

 boating, golf links, and a race- 

 course. There have been attempts 

 to make the place a seaport, 

 800,000 having been spent for 

 this purpose, but it has not been 

 possible to remove the bar at the 

 river mouth. Pop. 1,900. 



Portal System. Circulatory 

 system formed by veins from the 

 intestine and certain other ab- 

 dominal organs, which unite to form 

 a trunk, the portal vein. This 

 passes into the liver, where it again 

 divides into smaller vessels. 



Portamento (Ital., carrying). 

 Musical term for a vocal etfect 

 obtained by sliding from one note 

 to another. Used with restraint it 

 is a legitimate means of expression, 

 but it may easily be vulgarised, 

 and aa frequently employed by 



untrained singers it is a fruitful 

 source of faulty intonation. 



Port Antonio. Seaport town of 

 Jamaica. Situated on the N.E. 

 coast, 28 m. N.E. of Kingston, with 

 which it is connected by rly., it has 

 two good harbours, and is the 

 chief exporting centre for the 

 Jamaica banana trade. Pop. 7,100. 



Portarlington. Market town of 

 Ireland. It is partly in King's co. 

 and partly in Queen's co., and 

 stands on the Barrow and a branch 

 of the Grand Canal. It is 42 in. 

 from Dublin and 10 m. from 

 Maryborough, with a station on the 

 G.S. & W. Rly., on which line it is 

 a junction. Near the town are Emo 

 Park and the ruins of Lea Castle. 

 The name was given when the 

 town became the property of the 

 earl of Arlington in the 17th 

 century : previously it was called 

 Coltodry. Made a borough in 1667, 

 it sent two members to the Irish 

 parliament until 1800, and one to 

 the imperial parliament until 1885. 

 In 1685 a body of Protestant exiles 

 from France settled here. Market 

 day, Wed. Pop. 2,000. 



Portarlington, EARL OF. Irish 

 title borne since 1785 by the family 

 of Dawson, now Dawson-Damer. 

 William Henry Dawson, a land- 

 owner in Queen's county, and a 

 member of the Irish parliament, 

 was made Baron Dawson in 1770, 

 and Viscount Carlow in 1776. His 

 son John, the 2nd viscount, was 

 made an earl in 1785. John, the 

 2nd earl, a soldier, succeeded to the 

 estates of George Darner, earl of 

 Dorchester, and Henry, the 3rd 

 earl, took that name. He was suc- 

 ceeded in 1889 by his cousin, 

 Lionel, from whom the present earl 

 is descended. The family seat is 

 Emo Park, Portarlington, and the 

 earl's eldest son is known as 

 Viscount Carlow. 



Port Arthur. Port and town of 

 Ontario, Canada. It stands at the 

 head of Lake Superior, 991 m. from 

 Montreal and 423 m. from Winni- 

 peg, and is served by the C.P., 

 C.N., and G.T. Rlys. it has a 

 fine harbour ships quantities of 



