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a bufiiiels on a refpeftable fcale *, if they fet their 

 minds upon it. Their example has been followed 

 by fix lioufes, but all of men, who employ 52 twill 

 mills ; the number is increafmg ; and thread is the 

 ilaple manufafhire of the place. Cotton is fpun 

 upon jennies, and woven into various fabrics. Of 

 wool are made ferges, calimancoes, duffles, &c. 

 There are fome other manufaftures, as yet on fmall 

 fcales, particularly one of coarfe woolen cloth, 

 which is likely to do well. 



There is a celebrated ipring here, which, to- 

 . gether with the convenience of fea bathing, attracts 

 genteel company in fummer, who circulate a good 

 deal of money in the place. Accommodations for 

 lodging and amufement have been provided ; and 

 Peterhead has got the name of the Scarburgh of 

 Scotland. 



Pevensey, {Sujf. E.) a decayed antient town, 

 formerly a port of fome note, and, by its name, ap- 

 parently feated on an ifland or peninfula, has been 

 long deferted by the fea, now two miles from it, 

 and can be reached only by fraall boats, which work 

 up a rivulet with the tide. 



Philipstown, the capital of King's county in 

 Ireland, is a fmall town with very little trade. 



PiTTENWEEM, {Fife, S.) an antient town with 

 a tolerable harbour, which formerly had a number 

 ot good vefTels, but now only four. Coal and fait, 

 the only articles of trade in the place, attract a good 

 many veffels from the north parts of Scotland, this 

 being the lowell port on the Forth, where they can 

 be got. 



Plymouth, [Dev. E.) a large and flourifhing 

 town, fituated on the Plym, a little river, which 

 here joins the Tamar, and on a fine bay, which 

 makes one of the beft harbours in the kingdom, fit 

 to receive the greatetl fleet. The inhabitants are 

 largely concerned in the Newfoundland filhcry, and 

 the pilchard fifhery, and carr)' the produce of both 

 to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. 



Plymouth dock, about a mile weft from the 

 town, contains wet and dry docks for building and 

 repairing (hips belonging to the navy, and all the 

 neceffan,' eftabli/hments of ftore-houfes, work.{hops, 

 &c. which altogether make a large and populous 

 town. 



Plymton [Dev. E.) is one of the ftannary 

 towns. 



PoLGAviE, {For/. S.) a village on the fiiore of 

 the Tay, with a harbour in the mouth of a rivulet, 

 where fmall veffels take in com, and deliver coal, 

 hme, &c. 



PoLLOCKSHAWs, {Retif. S.) a village between 

 Glafgow and Pafley, enlivened by their manufac- 

 turing fpirit, which has produced two mills for fpin- 

 ning cotton, wherein 600 perfons, young and old, 

 are employed, manufactures of mullins, print -fields 

 bleach-fields, &c. 



PoMEROY, [Tyr. [.) a manufafturing village in 

 the linen trade. 



Pontefract, corrupted to Pomfret, {Yort^ 

 IV. R.) a, handfome town, in which, though it has 

 but little trade of its own, the accounts of the 

 cloths fulled at all the fulling mills in the Weft 

 riding of York-(hire are annually made up at the 

 Eafter feffions. Its fairs are noted for the number 

 and goodnefs of the horfes fold at them. 



PoNTVPooL, {Man. E.) an inland tovi-n, with 

 fome iron-works on the River Avon, and a manu- 

 fafture of japanned ware, known by the name of 

 Pontypool ware. 



Poole, (Dorf. E.) a town and county of itfelf, 

 on the ihore of a large bay with a narrow entrance 

 and good anchorage, called Luxford lake, or Poole 

 harbour. The peninfula, on which the town ftands, 

 was covered with fedges and rulhes in the memory 

 of old men contemporar)' with Leland. From a 

 few fifhermen's huts it grew up to a refpeftable 

 town in the reign of Richard III. It afterwards 

 declined, and again flouriihed, and is now a popu- 

 lous town, with good houfes built of ftone. A 

 good deal of corn is fhipped here, and alfo tobacco- 

 pipe clay, and (tones for building from the quarries 

 of Purbeck. The merchants trade to Nonvay and 

 America ; but the chief objeft of their attention 

 has long been the Newfoundland fifher)', to which 

 they have lately added the Southern whale fifhery. 

 A number of people find employment in catching 

 mackerels and herrings in their feafon, with which, 

 and other fifh, they iupply the neighbouring count- 

 ry, and alfo oyfters, fome of which produce pearls. 



PoRLocK, [Som. E.) a town on a fmall bay of 

 the Priilol channel, has a few veflels employed in 

 bringing coal and hme, and alfo confiderable fi(h • , 

 erics of falmon and herrings, 



PoRTADOWN, {Wrm. y.) a thriving village in the 

 linen countr)', fituated on the River Bann, by which 

 it has a communication with Lough Neagh, as it 

 has by the Newrj' canal with Carhngford bay. 



PoRTARLiNGTON, (^uecn. /. ) a confiderable in- 

 land town, with very little trade. A good deal of 

 cheefe, made in the neighbouring country, is fent 

 to Dubhn. 



Port Dundas, (Lan. S.) a new village near 

 Glafgow, and the port of that city for the canal 

 navigation, being at the head of the brancii joining 

 the great canal and at the end of the canal which 

 extends to the coal mines of Monkland. 



Port-Glasgow, [Renf. S.) a town on the 

 foulh fide of the Clyde, founded in the year 1668 

 by the commimity of Glafgow to accommodate the 

 (hipping of that city, which is not acceffible by 

 large veflels. The harbour has 15 feet of water, 

 is formed by three good piers projefting into the 

 channel of the river, and has a good drv dock. 

 Before the American war the merchants of Glal- 



* Before the year 1-64 there were many female thread-makers in various places, in the trifling way of retr.llino; their 

 own manufadurc and fcrving the petty (hops. But the Mifs Parks dcferve to be immortalized along with Mrs. Millar 

 at Pafley, as foundreffes of an important manufai5bure ; to whom might be added Mr-. Carrick at Strathmigio, if the 

 bufinefs, begun by her, were ftill kept up. 3 



