PAMLICO SOUND 



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PANAMA 



PAMLICO, iMin'itku. SOUND, the largest 



sea lagoon on tin- Atlantic coast of the United 



an indentation of North Carolina. A' 



its northeastern extremity it is connected with 



Aibemarlc Sound by a small outlet, Croatan 



LOCATION MAP 



\v. swampy section of North Carolina. 

 him! i. i \\ <--n tli' sound and the ocean i- 

 a narrow ribbon of sand. 



Sound, and at the southwestern end it has com- 

 munication with the ocean by Core Sound, 

 -o outlets are about sixty miles apart. The 

 width of Panilico Sound is about 

 A long, narrow beach, cut 



by three navigable inleu-. separa ind 



from the Atlantic on the ea.-t. On this beach 

 is Cape 11 'he farthoi point extendini: 



into the ocean. The Neuse and the Pamlico 

 rivers now into the sound through . 

 It has valuable oyster beds and is visited by 

 numerous wild fowl. 



PAM'PAS, a Sp:mi>h word meaning / 

 i.- used to designate several great plains of 

 South America, but is most commonly applied 

 to the immense grass-covered* plain in tin- 

 central part of Argentina, between the Rio Sa- 

 lado on the north and the Rio Negro on th 

 south, which merges into the steppes of P 

 gonia. During the wet season a luxuriant 

 growth of vegetation provides pasturage for 

 larue herds of cattle and sheep, and a portion 

 of the region along the Parana i> -uited to 

 farming. The population of about 26.000 i> 

 composed chiefly of gauchos. who are Spanish 

 and Indian half-breeds. ee ARGENTINA. 



PAN, in classical mythology, the greatest of 

 the woodland deities, the god of sheph. 

 hunters and fi>hermen. He wa> >uppo-ed to be 

 the son of Mercury, and at hi> birth \\ 

 frightful looking that his nurse fled in terror. 

 Mi irury. howi \. r. WM much amu>ed at the red 

 the horned head and i! body and 



limb<; and wrapping the child in a rabbit skin, 

 he carried him up to Olympic. All the | 

 were much delighted with lu> curious appear- 

 ance, .nid christened him l'un. or (///. Pan \\a- 

 lir.-t worshiped in his own country. Arcadia, but 

 later he \\.t- .:<c. j.i, d U a deity by the Atheni- 

 an- and hi-. woi>hij. >preail widely 

 usuallx attended by the faun> an : 



,ANAMA, pan u ii" m .-I repub- 



lic on the western contim 

 cally all of tin- narrow I-thmu- of I 1 

 uhich jom^ tl. m, Tin 



(ountry, owing to its location, has 'played an 

 interesting part in the world'- ln-tory for many 

 ! i MM thorn, or Caribbean, coast 



: and i \plored by Colui:. 



on his fourth and 



World, and eh \ < from one of it> 



i ins Balboa lii>t \je\\ d ; 



At Hi. time of tin .-onqucst and ex- 

 ploitation of Peru, the Spaniards found the 

 isthmus a comenient j..tthu.i\ for the convey- 

 ance of their treasures of silver and cold, and 

 Panama, on the southern coast, and Puerto 

 liello. on the northern, developed into note- 

 c ities a hundred years before the Pil- 



