.ZETTEER. 



PiMBRoKE may be Ciulcd the capital of MUford 

 haven, as wtll as of tiie Wclfh (hire namod from 

 it, the cuftoni-houlc for the whole haven beinj^ 

 f ftablifhod at it. The town is fniail, and has but 

 little trade. 



Penalht, [Ahr. IV.) a village with eoiifidcr- 

 ablc iron-works. 



Penarth, [G/am. JV.) a village at the months 

 of the Elwy and the Tarf, with a little coalting 

 trade.* 



Pennycuick, (£<///7. S.) a plcafant village on 

 the North E(l<, which has been much enlarged by 

 the ertftion of a cotton mill abont the year 1779, 

 the firft of the kind in Scotland, and lome paper 

 mills. 



Penrice, {G'ain. H'.) a fniall towr, with a 

 good harbour on a bay of the Brillol channel. 



Penrith, (Cumh. E.) a good town, with a ma- 

 nufafture of checks. At Eyniot bridge, one mile 

 fouth from it, there is a public bleach-field for 

 houfewife linens, of which a conhdcrable quantity 

 is made in the neighbourhood. 



Pen RHYS, [Cam. IV.) a village on the Ihore of 

 the Menai, the ftrait between Carnarvon and Ang- 

 lefcy, at which a harbour has lately been cftab- 

 lilhed, and confidcrable quantities of dates are fhip- 

 ped. 



Penrvn, (Corif. E.) a neat little town, has fome 

 veiTels in the Newfoundland fifiiery', and a (hare of 

 the pilchard lilhery in the feafon. 



Penzance, {Corn. E.) a neat thriving town, 

 with a harbour for fmall teifels, and a good deal of 

 trade, chiefly in fi(h, and (liipping the tin, lead, and 

 copper, which abound in this part of the country. 

 It is one of the coinage towns for tin. 



Pensford, {Som. £.) a fmall town on the.River 

 Chev,-, with a fhare of the woolen manufacture. 



Pershore, {Wore. E.) a town on the Avon, 

 wilh fome trade by the navigation of the river, and 

 a manufacture of itockings. 



Perth, the capital of the great (hire naaiitd from 

 it, is a large and pvofperous town, fituated on the 

 weft fide of the river Tay, which carries vefTels of 

 90 or ICO tuns up to it. There is a very exter- 

 five fifhery for fahr.on, and they are carritd, moilly 

 fre(h, being packed in ice, to London in fmacks, 

 which fometimes make their pafiage in fifiy-two 

 hours. The other vefTels belonging to the port 

 are chiefly empjoyed in coaling, and a few in im- 

 porting flax, flax-feed, wood, iron, &c. Perth is 

 emulating Pafley in enterprife and induftry, being, 

 like it, the center of a manufatfuiing country, Si- 

 lefias, britannias, kentings (or ghentings), hollands 

 for (hirting and fliecling, low-priced linens, and 

 pack.(heeting, are the fabrics made from flax and 

 hemp, which are chiefly iinportcd from Holland, 



and fpun in the adjacent country. There arc w\\\'\ 

 and ellabhfhmenls for fpinnwg cotton in levcral vil- 

 lages near the town ; and the yarn is made into 

 muQins, calicoes, handkerchefs, &c. The printing 

 and bleaching bufini (Tes are carried on to a great e;.- 

 tent in the neighbouring country. (See Cromwei.i, 

 i»ark, Luncarty, Ruthven, Stormcunt, Tl'i.- 

 LOCH.) The (l<ins of cattle, (hecp, and goats, arc 

 tanned and drelTed to a conliderable an-.ount ; and 

 (hoes, boots, and gloves, are (hipped for London 

 and other places. Their are three paper mills near 

 the town. 



Peterburg+1, {Nurihnwfi. E.) an antient towr. 

 on the nortli bank of the River Nen, is noted as the 

 fniallell epifcopal city in England. It has fome 

 fliare of the hoiiery bufinefs, and fome trade in fend- 

 ing malt down the river in barges, and receiving in 

 return coal and other articles, for the accommoda- 

 tion of the neighbouring country. 



Peterhead, {j^berd. S.) a handfome thriving 

 town, has an excellent harbour with 12 to 14 feet 

 of water at fpring tides, which affords refuge to 

 many vefltls taken in hard gales, and is ftill iiiT- 

 proveable. In the adjacent villages there are many 

 fifliermen, who, befidcs fupplying the town and 

 country with frefli fifii, fend confiderable quantities, 

 folted, to London. Peterhead, though only a creek 

 of Aberdeen in the cufl;oir.-houfe language, pofRfT- 

 es about 3,000 tuns of (hipping, in vcflels frcm 40 

 to 200 tuns, employed in trading to Norway and 

 the Baltic, and m coafting. One goes to 'the 

 Greenland fiflieiy, and feveral to various parts of 

 the world for account of the merchants of other 

 ports. The goods fliipped confift of— corn, pota- 

 toes f, butter, cheefe, eggs, beef, poik, falmon, 

 henings, ccxl, lobfters, paving ftones, whale oil, 

 whale-bone, ftal (Ivins, and a great part of all the 

 articles manufaftured, partly to foreign countries, 

 but moftly to Britifli port:,, and chiefly to London. 

 Peterhead receives — wcod for building veflels and 

 houfes, from the continent and from Speymouth ; 

 iron, flax, feeds of flax, and grafs, frcm the contir.- 

 ent ; yarn from Huntly, Keith, &c. ; coal, lime, 

 groceries, drapery, and all kinds of good:.,' from 

 London, Leith, &c. 



This town v;a%. fwn:erly famous for the goodnefs 

 of its ale, and is now noted for the goodnefs of its 

 bread. In the feventeenth century, fait was m.adt? 

 in the neighbourhood ; and the works have been 

 revived on a fmall fcale. In the y^ear 1764, two 

 young ladies of the name of Park began to make 

 white ounce threads, and by their perfe\f r.!: ;t atten- 

 tion to bufinefs they obtained a reputation k r their 

 goods, which in time enabled them to reti: uith a 

 competent foi-tune ; a proof (if proof were nccef- 

 fary) that women are not incapable of condnftirg 



• Near it are a viliage and an ifland, which, as well as the more noted iflands of Sillcy, fcsm to preferve in thtir r.-.. 

 a remembrance of the gallant nation of the Silures, the antient inhabitants of South W ales. 



\ About the middle of the eighteenth century, pqtatots were brought to Peterhead from Frcland and Norway as :■.: 

 'ers of curiofity ; now they ar^ carried to Norway as an article of trade. 



