PORT AU PRINCE 



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PORT ELIZABETH 



Port au Prince. 



Capital and chief 

 seaport of Haiti, 

 West Indies. Situ- 

 ated on the W. 

 coast, at the head 

 of the Gulf of 

 Gonaives, it con- 

 tains a cathedral, 

 and has a secure 

 harbour. Trade 

 largely consists of 

 the shipment of 

 coffee, hides, and 

 logwood. Pop. 

 120,000. See Haiti. 

 Port Banna- 

 tyne. Watering- 

 place of Bute- 

 shire, Scotland. It stands on Kames 

 Bay, 2 m. from Rothesay. The 

 chief industry is fishing. John Ster- 

 ling was born here. Near is Kames 

 Castle. Mainly a 14th century build- 

 ing, it became the property of the 

 marquess of Bute. Known also 

 as Kames, it must be distinguished 

 from Kames in Berwickshire, the 

 birthplace of Lord Kames (q.v. ). 



Port Blair. Penal settlement 

 of the Andaman Islands, in the 

 Bay of Bengal. It is situated on 

 South Island, one of the Great 

 Andamans, and receives convicts 

 from India. See Andaman Islands. 

 Portbury. Village of Somerset, 

 England. It is 9 m. from Bristol, 

 and stands near the Avon. The 

 chief building is S. Mary's Church. 

 In 1916 a national shipyard was 

 established here. Pop. 500. 



Port Chalmers. Port of South 

 Island, New Zealand. Situated 

 8 m. from Dunedin, for which it 

 is the deep water port, 190 m. 

 from Lyttelton and 1,343 m. from 

 Melbourne, it has graving docks, 

 etc. Pop. 2,700. 



Port Chester. Village of New 

 York, U.S.A., in Westchester co. 

 It stands on Long Island Sound, 

 25 m. N.E. of New York, and is 

 served by the New York, New 

 Haven and Hartford Rly. It is a 

 residential village and a popular 

 summer resort. Settled about 1743, 

 it was incorporated as a village in 

 1868. Pop. 16,600. 



Port Clarence. Small port, 

 Durham, England, on the N. side 

 of the mouth of the Tees, 4 m. 

 N.E. of Stockton, on the N.E. Rly. 

 Coal is exported and salt is manu- 

 factured. A ferry connects Port 

 Clarence with Middlesbrough. 



Portcullis (Fr. parte, gate ; 

 coulisse, a groove). In military 

 architecture, a strong, timber- 

 framed grating like a harrow, 

 made to slide up and down in.stone 

 grooves in the portals of fortified 

 castles. The vertical spikes were 

 pointed with iron at the bottom, so 

 as to strike into the earth or to 



Port au Prince. Former national palace where President 

 Lecomte was burned to death, Aug. 7, 1912 



pierce the bodies of those attempt- 

 ing to force an entrance. The port- 



Porte, JOHN CYRIL (1884-1919). 

 British inventor. He entered the 

 navy in 1S98, and on the introduc 

 tion of flying turned his attention 

 to aeronautics, and in 1909 began 

 building biplanes. Invalided out 

 of the navy in 1911, he went 

 to America, 

 where he en- 

 gaged in the 

 com mercial 

 side of aero- 

 nautics. Re- 

 turning to Eng- 

 land in 1914, 

 he became a 

 commander in 

 the R.N.A.S., 

 and in 1915 

 took part in 



John C. Porte, 

 British inventor 



Elliott ic Fry 



the raid on Bruges, Zeebrugge, and 



Port Bannatyne, Buteshire. The town and bay from the west 



feature of early Ostend. He then devoted himself 



cull is was 



Norman and later medieval strong- 

 holds. In a lona entrance passage 

 there was frequently a succession 

 of them. See 

 Castle; Forti- 

 fication. 



Port Dar- 

 win. Former 

 name of the 

 port of Nor- 

 thern Austra- 

 lia now known 



Portcullis. Defensive 

 grating of medie- 

 val castles 



as Darwin 

 (q.v.). 



Port de la Paix. Town and 

 seaport of Haiti, West Indies. It 

 stands at the mouth of the Trois 

 Rivieres, on Tortuga Channel, and 

 carries on a trade in coffee, cocoa, 

 etc. Pop. 10,000. 



Port Durnford. Inlet of Kenya 

 Colony, 250 m. N. from Mombasa. 

 It is also the name of a harbour 

 in Natal at the mouth of the 

 Umlatosi (Umhlatuzi) river, where 

 is a government plantation for the 

 supply of rly. sleepers. 



Porte OR SUBLIME PORTE. Term 

 used for the government of Turkey. 

 It comes from an Arabic word for 

 gate which was translated into 

 French as porte, and thus passed 

 into general use in Great Britain. 

 This special use of the word bears 

 relation to the Eastern custom of 

 using the gates of cities and royal 

 palaces as places where justice was 

 administered. See Turkey. 



to the construction of Hying boats 

 and invented a series of Porte 

 machines. He died Oct. 22, 1919. 

 See Flying Boat. 



Port Edgar. Harbour of the 

 British crown colony of the Falk- 

 land Islands. It is situated on 

 the S.E. coast of the island of W. 

 Falkland. 



Port Elizabeth. Seaport of 

 Cape Province, S. Africa. It stands 

 on Algoa Bay, 712 m. from Johan- 

 nesburg and 664 from Cape Town, 

 with both of which it is connected 

 by rly. The Baakens river runs 

 through the town. The chief 

 buildings are the town hall, public 

 library, museums, post office, and 

 hospital. The churches include the 

 Roman Catholic cathedral and S. 

 Mary's, an Anglican centre. The 

 market buildings contain large 

 halls, one being known as the 

 feather market hall. 



The town has a theatre, opera 

 house, and drill hall. There are 

 three public parks, St. George's, 

 Victoria, and Prince Alfred. To 

 the N. of St. George's Park is 

 an old Scottish cemetery. The 

 town, which is served by electric 

 tramways, is a shipping and dis- 

 tributing centre, and has no en- 

 closed harbour, goods being landed 

 at modern jetties. The roadstead, 

 however, is sheltered. In 1859 it 

 was found necessary to remove the 

 breakwater, but early in the 20th 



