.ZETTEER. 



gow built all their flups in Amciica, except a few 

 built for them at Leith. Since that event fhip- 

 building and the maniifaftures connefted with it, 

 have been cftabhfhed at Port-Glafgow. 



PORTOBELLO. SeC BrICKFIELD. 



Port-Patrick, OV(^i. S.) the ftation of the 

 pofl-oifice packets to Ireland, to which this is the 

 neareft port in Great Britain, is chiefly fupported 

 by the numerous travelers to and from that ifland, 

 and the carriage of feme cattle and merchandize. 

 A good quay lias been erefted, by means of which, 

 with a light-houte here and another at Donaghadce, 

 the paflage is rendered fafe and eafy in any hour of 

 the night. A few velTels belong to the harbour, 

 and fome are built here. 



Port-Rush, (^yint. I.) a village with a liarbour, 

 and fome veffels engaged in coafting, fifhing, &c. 



P0RTSKEW£TH, Or PoRTASCAU F.T, [_Mon. E.) 



a village near the mouth of the River Throgoy, 

 and faid to have been the principal port of the 

 country, till Chepftow drew the trade away frona it. 

 Portsmouth {Hamfi. E.) is not a place of 

 much trade, except what is produced by the pro- 

 digious naval works carried on in its dockyard, and 

 the circulation of money expended by the people 

 of all defcriptions, belonging to, or connected with, 

 the royal navy. The harbour poflefies all the 

 points of excellence required by the beft judges to 

 conftitute a perfeft harbour, and is capable of con- 

 taining the whole navy in fafety, proteftcd by na- 

 ture from ftorms, and by art from the attacks of 

 enemies. The dock-yard is fo amply provided for 

 building and repairing (hips of war, and with every 

 thing requilite for fitting them out with the utmoft. 

 difpatch, that nothing in the world can be compar- 

 ed to it. 



Portsoy, {Bamf, S.) a village with a fmall 

 harbour and a few coafting veffels. There is here 

 an inexhauftible mafs of marble, or jafper, of which 

 great quantities were formerly carried to France, 

 and partly ufed in the buildings of the palace of 

 Verfailles. A manutafture of ftocking thread has 

 failed by the difufe of thread ftockings. 



Port William, (JVig. S.) a new village, with 

 a fmall fheltered harbour, capable of receiving vef- 

 fels of 200 tuns. The little trade it has confifts in 

 (hipping fome corn, wool, &c. and receiving lime, 

 coal, and other articles for the confumplion of the 

 countr)'. 



The Potteries, {Staff. E.) the general name 

 of the diilrift in which the manufafture of earthen- 

 ware is carried on in the improved manner introduc- 

 ed by the late Mr. Wedgwood, comprehending — 

 Etruria, the feat and works of Mr. Wedgwood, 

 Cowbridge,HandIey, Smithiicld, Newficld, Burflem, 

 Longport, Golden hill. Lane end. Lane Delft, 

 Lower lane, Vale pleafant, Sheldon, and Stoke, 



mod of which have been created, or raifcd from in- 

 fignificancc, by the manufafture. They are fituat- 

 cd in a countr)- full of coal, and in the licart of 

 England, with ever>^ part of which they have nav'- 

 gable communication by means of the grand trunk 

 canal, and the other canals which now interfecft 

 every part of the kingdom. From fifteen to twen- 

 ty thoufand people are employed in the Potteries ; 

 Rud the operations of digging and collcfting the 

 clay, flint, &c. in Kent, Suflex, Hampfliire, Dor- 

 fet-fliire, Devon-.Tiire, and Cornwall, and conveying 

 them to the ports of Liverpool and Hull, and from 

 them, by inland navigation, to the Potteries, are 

 fuppofed to employ from thirty to forty thoufand 

 people, and from forty to fixty thoufand tuns of 

 (hipping, befides thofe which are afterwards em- 

 ployed in conveying the finilhed goods to every 

 part of Great Britain, and to every part of the 

 globe : for there is probably no civilized part of 

 the globe, in which Stafford-fliire earthen ware is 

 not ufed *. See V. iii, p. 380. 



Prescot, {Lan. E.) a town diftinguifhed as the 

 original feat of the manufadlure of watchmaker's 

 tools, in which it ftill excells, as alfo in watch move- 

 ments, and all the materials of watches. Thefe 

 manufaftures have been very much facihtated and 

 extended by the excellent invention of a machine 

 for dividing and cutting the teeth of the wheels 

 with exaftnefs, neatnefs, and expedition. This 

 town has alfo a (hare of the cotton manufafture, 

 the great ftaple of the neighbouring country. 



pRESTEiGN, (Rad. JV.) a little town with a 

 fmall manufafture of woolen goods. 



Preston, {Lan. E.) a well-built and populous 

 town, at the mouth of the Ribble, which admits 

 veffels of burthen with the tide, and carries boats 

 about ten miles above the town, has fome coalling 

 and foreign trade. About two thirds of the people 

 are employed in fpinning cotton, in weaving cali- 

 coes, mudins, &c. and in printing them. 



Prestonpans, {HaJ. S.) a fmall town, fo call- 

 ed from the pans wherein fait is made. Befides 

 that original manufaflure, there are works, wherein 

 earthen ware is made, to a pretty confiderable ex- 

 tent, from materials, partly found in the adjacent 

 grounds, and partly brought from Devon-Hiirc, 

 Kent, London, Hull, and Newcaftle. There are 

 alfo works for brown earthen ware, bricks, and 

 tiles, and a coiifiderable faftoiy where oil of vitriol, 

 aqua fortis, fpirit of fait, and other drugs, are 

 made. The place is noted for oyfters, which, be- 

 fides fcrving Edinburgh and the neighbourhood, 



are carried to Glafgow and Newcaftle Adjacent 



to the town there is a harbour with about 10 feet 

 of water in fpring tides, antiently called New haven 

 and Aitchifon's haven, but now Morifon's haven f , 

 and, in the cuftom4ioufe books, Preftonpans. The 



• The author of a Gazeteer of England, publifhed in 1751, fays that the (lone ware made in this country has been ex- 

 ported to the amount of £zo,ooo in a year, which he reckons a great fum. The ftone ware has been fupeifeded by the 

 earthen ware : but £ao,ooo would be a fmall buCncfs for one houfe in that manufafture. 



t It is a curious circumftance that thi» little harbour attrafted the attention of fume cf the wild projeiScrs of the T«ar 

 J7J0. See V, iii, p. 97. 



