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chara(?teriflic mark, and differing only in the pale colour of 

 the head. 



PvGARGUs AcnpUer, a name by which many authors have 

 called the fubbuteo, a bird of the hawk kind ; the male of 

 which is called in Englifli the hen-harrier, and the female 

 fuppofed by fome to be the ring-tail. See Falco. 



PYGELA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia Minor, 

 in Ionia, where was a temple of Venus Munychian, accord- 

 ing to Strabo and Steph. Byz. 



PYGME, OTi/yK") the length, or exten*;, between the 

 elbow, and extremity of the hand, the fift being fhut ; called 

 alfo a cubit. 



PYGMY, PvGMffiUS, TOuynaiot, formed of ■avy^i^, cubit, 

 a dwarf, or perfon of exceeding fmall ftature, not exceed- 

 ing a cubit in height. See Dwarf. 



The appellation is given among the ancients to a fabulous 

 nation, laid to have inhabited Thrace ; who generated and 

 brought forth young at five years of age, and were old 

 at eight ; famous for the bloody war they waged with the 

 cranes. 



Pygmy Ape, in Zoology. See Simia Sylvanus. 



PYHA, HI Geography, a large lake of Sweden, in the 

 province of Savolax, N.E. of lake Saima, and communicat- 

 ing with It. — Alfo, a river of Sweden, which runs into the 

 gulf of Bothnia, at Braheftad. 



PYHAJARVl, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Nyland ; 34 miles N.W. of Helfingfors. 



PYHAJOCKl, a town of Sweden, in Eall Bothnia, near 

 the fea coaft ; 10 miles S.S.W. of Brahellad. 



PYH AM AA, a fmall idand in the gulf of Bothnia, on 

 a peninfula of the coafl of Finland. N. lat. 69" 59'. E. 

 long. 21° 12'. 



PYKEHAUS, a town of Bengal; 52 miles S.E. of 

 Pucculoe. 



PY'KER, or Pycar, in our Writers, a fmall (hip or 

 herring boat. 



PYLA, in Geography, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 

 48 miles N. of Pofen. — Alfo, a river of England, in Mon- 

 mouthlliire, which runs into the Olvvy ; 2 miles N.E. of 

 Uik. 



PYLADES, in Biography. See Bathyllus, Hvlas, 

 Mime, and Pantomime. 



PYLyE Persides, in Ancient Geography, a famous ftrait 

 in Afia, between the Perlide and Sufiana, according to Dio- 

 dorus Siculus. This ftrait is named Ports Perficx by 

 Strabo, and Pylte Sufiades by Arrian. 



Pyla; Sarmaticte. Sarmatia is bounded on the S. by 

 mount Caucafus, which feparates it from the neighbouring 

 countries. Ptolemy fpeaks of two ftraits or palfages in this 

 famous mountain ; one called Portoe Caucafije, which affords 

 entrance into Siberia ; the other named Pyls Albaniae, and 

 gives entrance into Albania. 



PYL-iEA, a town of Macedonia, in Trachinia, fituated 

 at the foot of mount Oeta, according to Philoftratus. This 

 gave name to the Pylaic gulf, mentioaed by Strabo. 



Pyl^ea, roijAocia, in Antiquity, a name given to the af- 

 fembly of the Amphitlyons, as well when they met at Del- 

 phi as at Thermopylx. The concourfe of people at thefe 

 aflemblies was fo great, that the term pyliea came to be ufed 

 for any very numerous aflembly, or crowd of people. Mem. 

 Acad. Infer, vol. iv. p. 287. 290. 



PYLAGORiE, YluXa-yofic, a name given to the Am- 

 phiftyons, becaufe they affembled at Thermopylae, or 

 PylsE. 



PYLAU, in Geography, a town of Pruffia ; 18 miles S. 

 of Konigfbcrg. 



PYLE, Thomas, in Biography, was born at Stodey, near 



Holt, in Norfolk, in the year 1 674. He received his acade- 

 mical education at Caius college, Cambridge, where he took 

 his degrees, and became an excellent Icholar. When iii- 

 dufted to the church, lie difcharged all the duties attaching 

 to his fituation as curate with the molt confcientious in- 

 tegrity. His great aim was to amend and improve his 

 hearers, and his difcourfes and urgent manner gained him 

 the attention for wliicii he was anxious. In early life he 

 took part in the Bangorian coiitroverfy, and acquitted him- 

 felf fo much to the fatisfaftion of biflwp Hoadly, that his 

 lordihip prefentcd him with a prebend, aisd procured for 

 him a relidentiarj-fhip in the cathedral church of Sahlbury, 

 and likewife made his two fons prebendaries of Wincheiler. 

 He died in his 84th year. He was greatly admired as a 

 preacher, and no lefs fo as a faithful friend, an agreeable 

 companion, a man of the moft liberal fentiments, and fo 

 free from all pride and conceit of his o-xu abihties, that he 

 was apt to pay a deference to the opinions of many perfons 

 much inferior to himfelf. Archbifhop Herring fpeaks of him 

 as a worthy man, but who had not at all times the proper go- 

 vernment of his own temper. He was author of feveral 

 works : as " A Paraphrafe, with Notes, on the Ads of the 

 Apoftles, and Epiltles," being a fupplcment to Dr. Clarke's 

 Paraphrafe on the Four Gofpels : " The Scripture Pre- 

 fervative againil Popery ; being a Paraphrafe, with Notes, 

 on the Revelation of St. John." He pubhlhcd alfo, be- 

 tween the years 17 15 and 1725, "A Paraphrafe, with (hort 

 and ufeful Notes, on the Books of the Old Teftament." 

 In 1773, his friends pubhihed two vols, of poilhumous fer- 

 mons, to which, in 1783, a third was added. Though thefe 

 fermons want the care and polifli of finifhed compofitions, 

 they are reckoned interefting and highly ufeful family dif- 

 courfes. 



PYLE.RUDBAR, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in 

 the province of Ghilan ; 32 miles S. of Refhd. 



PYLING the Ground for Foundations. See Foundation, 

 and Pallification. , 



PYLORIC Artery and Vein, in Anatomy, are blood 

 veffels belonging to the ftomach. See Stomach. 



PYLORUS, the circular ring by which the ftomach 

 communicates with the fmall inteftine. See Stomach. 



PYLSTART, in Geography, an ifland in the South Pa- 

 cific ocean, about fix miles in circumference, difcovered by 

 Tafman in 1643. It prefents to view two lofty hills, 

 which feem feparated from each other by a low valley : it is 

 called by Maurelle " La Sola." S. lat. 22° 22'. W. long. 



'75" 59'- 



PYLUS Mejfenix, now Na-uarin, in Ancient Geography, 

 was fituated on the weltern coaft of Meflenia, over-againll 

 the ifland of Afina. 



Pylus [Zonchio), or Avarino Veccio, a town of Meflenia, 

 upon the fea-coaft, S.E. of Platamodes. 



Pylus JElianus, a town of Triphylia, N.W. of Onus, 

 upon the Ladon. 



PYMATUNING, in Geography, a town of America, 

 in Mercer county, Pennfylvania ; 23 miles W.S.W^. of Fort 

 Franklin. It contains 376 inhabitants. 



PYNAKER, Adam, in Biography, a landfcape painter, 

 was born at the village of Pynaker, near Delft, in 162 1. 

 Whether his real name was that by which he is known or 

 not, IS not now to be afcertained. By an earneft ftudy of the 

 art, firft in his native land, and afterwards at Rome, he ac- 

 quired very confiderable Ikill and celebrity. He generally 

 exhibits brilliant effedts of funfliine, in fubjefts not always 

 happily feledled, but executed with great frelhnefs, purity, 

 and taile. In his pidlures we frequently fee ruins of elegant 

 and antique buildings, and figures well adapted to the 



fcenery. 



