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a fruit of three cells, filled with an infinite number of feeds. 

 T'euillee met with feveral fpecimens of this plant in the king- 

 dom of Chili. He refers it to his genus of Renealm'ta, the 

 Tillandfia of Linnasus. Juliieu jullly fufpeCls its being the 

 fame genus with I'Heritier's PiitAiuMA, lee that article; 

 of which therefore the plant in quL-ftion may be prcfumcd 

 to conllitute an additional fpecies to the four we have de- 

 fcribed ; agreeing moll with P. braSeata in habit, fize and 

 colour, but differnig in having more ipinous leaves, as well 

 as a more compound inflorcfcence. 



The reader will obferve that JuHieu, according to the 

 principles he had aliumed, calls the whole integument of the 

 flower a calyx, while we follow other writers in taking the 

 three inner parts for petals ; a meafure juftified, if wc mif- 

 take not, by their habit, and mode of withenng. The 

 little differences refpefting the fcales or nectaries may eafily 

 be reconciled. 



PUYCERDA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Cata- 

 lonia, and capital of the county of Cerdagne, furrounded 

 with walls and bailions, and defended by a cattle ; 19 miles 

 E.N.E. of Urgeh N. lat. 42° 30'. E. long. 1° 48'. 



PUYO, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Landes ; nine miles S.W. of Aire. 



PUYS, a term ufed for the poles with which the keels 

 on the Tyne river are flowed along. 



PUYSEGUR, James de Chastenet, Lord of, in Bio- 

 graphy, lieutenant-general under Lewis XIII. and XIV., 

 was born in 1 600. He entered the army at the age of feven- 

 teen, and fervcd, without intermiffion, during forty-three years. 

 He was prefent at above thirty battles, and one hinidred and 

 twenty fieges, without ever having been fick or received a 

 wound, but he had not the good fortune to rife in his pro- 

 feffion, being more zealous for the king's fervice, than com- 

 plaifant to the miniilers. He drew up " Memoirs," com- 

 prifing the period from 161 7 to 1658, in which are contained 

 various remarkable particulars relative to the campaigns in 

 which he ferved, with ufeful military inftruttions. They 

 were printed at Paris and Amllerdam in 1690, 2 vols. i2mo. 

 under the infpeftion of Du Chefne, hilloriographer of 

 France, and they have the charafter of narrating with free- 

 dom and fidelity. He died at his country feat in 1682. 

 Moreri. 



PuYSEGUR, James de Chatelet, Marquis de, was fon 

 of the preceding, born at Paris in 1655, and entered into 

 the army under his father, and gradually rofe to the poll of 

 commander-in-chief in the French Netherlands, and finally, 

 to the ftill more important one of a marfhal of France in 

 1734. He died at Paris in the year 1743, "^^ '^^ ""^^ °^ 

 88. He was author of a work "On the>Art-MiIitary," 

 piiblifhed by his only fon the marquis of Puyfegur. Moreri. 



PUZZ ALO, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Sicily, 

 in the valley of Noto, near the S. coaft of the ifland ; 1 2 

 miles S.W. of Noto. 



PUZZLING Bay, a bay in the flraits of Magellan, on 

 the coafl of Patagonia. N. lat. 53° 35'. W. long. 74° 28'. 



PUZZOLANA. See Pozzolana, and Calcareous Ce- 

 ment. 



PUZZUOLI, in Geography. See PozzuOLl. 



PWLLHELI, a borough, market, and fea-port town 

 in the parifh of Denio, cvsmmwd of Cannologion, cantref 

 of Lleyn, now called the hundred of Gyfflogion, county of 

 Caernarvon, South Wales, is fituated on the fouth fide of 

 the promontory of Lleyn, in St. George's Channel, at the 

 diftanee of 27 miles S.S.W. from Caernarvon, and 243-5 

 miles W.N.W. from London. This town coufiils chiefly 

 of a fingle flreet, running parallel to the (hore. It was 

 cenllituted a free borough by Edward the Black Prince, at 



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the requell of Nigel de Loharcyn, .ind had its privilegei 

 confirmed by king Edward III. The government is veiled 

 in a mayor, recorder, and two bailiffs, who have the powers 

 of juflices. The market days here are Wcdnefday and 

 Saturday, weekly ; and there are befides fix annual fairs. 

 This port has a confider;ble trade ; and upwards of eighty 

 fliips, of different burthens, belong to it. Along the coaft 

 to Bardfea ifland, an extenfive and valuable herring fifhery 

 has been lately eflablilhed. The harbour is good, and well 

 flieltercd from the winds ; and the bay, to wliich the town 

 gives name, affords excellent anchorage ground. Pwllheli 

 is one of the contributary boroughs with Caernarvon, in 

 returning one member to parliament, and is likewife the feat 

 of the petty feffions for the diflrift of Lleyn, which extends 

 about twenty-two miles in length, and from three to ten ia 

 breadth, projefting into the fea in a manner fimilar to the 

 county of Cornwall. According to the parliamentary re- 

 turns of 181 1, the parifh contains 312 houfes, and 1383 

 inhabitants, of which number, above one-half are refident in 

 the town of Pwllheli. 



At the diflance of five miles from this town is Carn- 

 Madryn, a flrong fortrefs, which formerly belonged to the 

 fons of Owen Gwynedd. The bottom, fides, and top are 

 filled with cells, varying in fize and fhape, many of which 

 are ftill nearly entire. Clofe to the fea-coalt is an entrench- 

 ment, called Dinas Dinlle, which conflitutes an objedl of 

 great attracflion from the road to Caernarvon by Clynnog 

 Fawr, a neat romantic village, boafting one of the largeft 

 and handf'omed churches in Wales. Near it is the valley 

 called Nant-y-Gwrtheyrn, or the valley of Vortigern, where 

 that prince is faid to have concealed himfelf, to avoid the 

 perfecution of his fubjefts. It is bounded on two fides by 

 ftony fteps, only produdlive of heath and ftunted gorfe, 

 and on a third by a tremendous precipice. The only open- 

 ing to this fecluded fpot is towards the fea, " a northern 

 afpeft, where chilling winds exert all their fury, and half 

 freeze, during winter, its few inhabitants." Nicholfon's 

 Cambrian Traveller's Guide, 1813. Carlifle's Topographi- 

 cal Didionary of Wales, 181 1, 4to. 



PYANEPSIA, Yiva.n\m, in Jntiquity, a feafl celebrated 

 by the Athenians in the month Pyanepfion ; which, accord- 

 ing to the generality of the critics, correfponded to our 

 September. 



Plutarch refers the inftitution of this feaft to Thefeus ; 

 who, at his arrival from Crete, made a kind of facrifice to 

 Apollo of all the provifions remaining in his veffel ; putting 

 them all into a kettle, boihng them together, and eating 

 them with his fix companions ; which cuftom was afterwards 

 continued. The fchohaft of Ariftophanes fays, this was 

 done to acquit himfelf of a vow he made to Apollo in a 

 tempeft. 



M. Baudelot writes the word Puanepfia, and takes it to 

 be a feaft inflituted in memory of Thefeus's return after 

 killing the Minotaur. 



The Greeks vary as to the origin and fignification of the 

 word Pyanepfion, whence the feaft is denominated. Har- 

 pocration calls it Pieanoptia; he addt, that others call it 

 Panopfa, becaufe then the fruits all appear to the eye. 

 Hefychius writes Pyanepfta; and derives it from vMam, bean, 

 and i]^!L', coquo; becaufe in this feaft the Athenians gathered 

 their beans, and made a kind of broth of them. 



PYANEPSION, nLavsJ..^;, in the Athenian Chronology, 

 a month of thirty days, in which the feftival Pyanepfia was 

 celebrated, and called by the Bxotians Damatrius. 



PYAPOUR, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bahar ; i x miles E. of Bahar. 



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