P U T 



exaggerated by the eallern dialeft, that there is not mucli to 

 be cxpcfted from them. 



PUSULA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Nyland ; 37 miles N.N.W. of Helfingfors. 



PUT, in tlie Manege, called in Frencii tnettrc, is ufed for 

 the breaking or managmg of a horfe : thus. 



To put li horfe to corvets, or caprioles, is to teach him 

 thofe parts of the manege. 



To put a horfe upon his haunches, called in Frencli 

 ajfcoir, is to make him bend them handfomely in galloping 

 in the manege, or upon a ilop. See Haunches. 



To put a horfe to the walk, trot, or gallop, is to make 

 him walk, trot, or gallop. 



To put a horfe under the button, fee Button. 



PUTAGE, PuTAGiuM, in our old Lain Books, denotes 

 whoredom or fornication on the part of a woman. 



The word is formed from the French putte, 'uihore ; puta- 

 gium, q. d. putam agere. " Quod autum generaliter folet 

 dici, pwtagium haereditatem non adimit ; illud intelligendum 

 ell de putagio matris ; quia filius hires legitimus eft, quem 

 nuptifE demonftrant." Glanv. lib. vii. cap. 12. 



PUTALA, in Geography. See Pateli. 



PUTALLOM, a town on the coaft of Ceylon, near 

 Calpenteen, remarkable for its fait -pans. This place, before 

 the arrival of Europeans on the ifland, fupplied the natives 

 with fait ; and on account of its convenient fituation, was 

 pitched upon by the Dutch for the manufafture of the fait 

 with which they fupplied the king of Candy's dominions, 

 according to the articles of their treaty with him. The 

 fait -pans are formed by an arm of the fea which overflows 

 part of the country between Putallom and Calpenteen. A 

 very large quantity of fait was manufaftured here by the 

 Dutch ; they looked upon it as of the higheft importance 

 to their interefts in the ifland, and the moft formidable 

 weapon which it was in their power to employ againft the 

 native king, as it was impoflible for him to procure any but 

 through their means. Since the Britifh have obtained pof- 

 fefTion of the ifland, this manufafture has been almoft en- 

 tirely neglefted. It is capable, however, of being rendered 

 vei-y profitable, as it is the only one of the kind on this fide 

 of the ifland, and the moft conveniently fituated for fupply- 

 ing the king of Candy's dominions. The Dutch enafted 

 very fevere laws to prevent individuals from manufacturing 

 or trading in this article ; the government taking upon it- 

 felf the management of the works, and the care of fupplying 

 both its own fubjefts and the Candians. In order to keep 

 a conftant check on the latter, the Dutch were careful not 

 to allow them too great a quantity at once ; and whatever 

 remained at Putallom, after fupplying the demands of each 

 year, they deftroyed, that it might not be feized upon by 

 furprife. 



PUTANGES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Ar- 

 gentan ; nine miles N.W. of Argentan. The place con- 

 tains 502, and the canton 11,934 inhabitants, on a temtory 

 of 212^ kiliometres, in 31 communes. 



PUTANISM, PuTANisMO, an Italian term, naturalized 

 by fome Englifh writers, fignifying whoredom, or the life or 

 condition of a courtezan. 



The word we borrow immediately from the French, puta- 

 oifme ; and they from the Italian /u/tonrt, whore; of putia, 

 girl. 



PUTAO, in Geography, a town on the S. coaft of the 

 ifland of Lu9on. S. lat. 13° 6'. E. long. 123=' 28'. 



PUTATIVE, SupposlTiVE, fomething reputed to be 

 what it really is not. 



The word is feldom ufed but in the phrafe putative father. 



PUT 



Thus we fay, Jofeph was the putative father of Jefus 

 Chrift. 



PUTAVERI, in Biography, a native of Otaheite,^' 

 brought into France by the circumnavigator Bougainville ; 

 of whom a gentleman, who had refided a confiderable 

 time in Italy, and was an excellent judge of mufic, aflured 

 us that the effefts of French mufic, when fairly tried upon 

 him immediately on his arrival, were not thofe of rapture, 

 but ridicule. He danced to it, indeed, as we would to a 

 marked meafure beat on a drum or a table ; for as foon as 

 he returned from the great opera, whither he was carried, he 

 mimicked what he had heard and feen in the moft natural 

 and ridiculous manner poflible ; giving the company a fpe- 

 cimen of the French opera, which was the moll admirable 

 parody imaginable of French finging, or rather of the 

 fcreams and bowlings at the Academic Royale de la Mufique 

 in the time of Louis XV. Our friend wifhed to try the 

 effefts of Italian mufic upon this demi-favage native of 

 Otaheite ; but there was no opportunity, for how could it 

 be properly executed at Paris ? However, according to the 

 late lord marftial, the experiment had been fairly made on 

 another occafion. 



A young Greek lady being brought from her own 

 country to Paris, fome years fince, was, foon after her 

 arrival in that city, carried to the opera by fome French 

 ladies, fuppofing, as ftie had never heard cultivated mufic, 

 that flie would be in raptures at it ; but, contrary to thofe 

 expeftations, flie declared that the finging only reminded 

 her of the hideous bowlings of the Calmuc Tartars, and as 

 to the machinery, which it was thought would afford her 

 great amufement, flie proclaimed her diflike of many parts 

 of it, and was particularly ftiocked by what flie called the 

 impious and wicked imitation of God's thunder. Soon 

 after this expenment ftie went to Venice, where another trial 

 was made on her unprejudiced ears, at an Italian opera, in 

 which the famous Gizziello fung, at whofe performance flie 

 was quite dilfolved in pleafure, and was ever after paf- 

 fionately fond of Itaban mufic. 



PUTAWATAMES, or Pootootamies, in Geography, 

 Indians who inhabit between St. Jofeph's and Detroit in 

 North America, and can furnifli about 500 warriors. 

 There are two tribes of this name, the one of the river St. 

 Jofeph, and the other of Huron. At the treaty of Green- 

 ville, Auguft 3d, 1795, they ceded lands to the United 

 States, who paid them a fum of money, and engaged to give 

 them goods to the value of 1000 dollars p>er annum, fo: 

 ever. 



PUTBUS, a town and fort of the ifland of Rugen ; fiv( 

 miles S. of Bergen. 



PUTCABARY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal 

 45 miles S.E. of Moorfliedabad. 



PUTEA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa pro 

 pria, S. of Adrametum, between Campfa and Caraga, ac 

 cording to Ptolemy. — Alfo, a town of Syria, in the Palmy 

 rene, between Oriza and Abada. Ptol. 



PUTEAL, among the Romans, a fmall kind of edific 

 raifed in the place where a thunder- bolt had fallen. Se 



BiDENTAL. 



PUTELKAW, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, i 

 the province of Ermeland ; fix miles S.W. of Frawer 

 burg. 



PUTEMAHRY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal 

 1 6 miles N. of Kiftienagur. 



PUTEOLANUS Pulvis. See Pozzolana. 



PUTHLOSE, or PwTl.os, in Geography, a town < 

 the duchy of Holftein ; four miles N.W. of Oldenburg. 



PUTI, or PoTi, a town of the principality 'of Gurii 



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