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PACU'VIUS (Marcus), a Latin tragic poet, was a na¬ 
tive of Brundufium, and is faid to have been the filler's 
Ion of Ennius. He flourifhed about B. C. 154. and was 
the friend and gueft of C. Lelius. In the rude date of 
the Roman theatre he obtained great reputation ; and his 
tragedy of “ Oreftes” is particularly mentioned by Ci¬ 
cero as having been heard with loud applaule. He alfo 
compofed fatires, and had a talent for painting. In ad¬ 
vanced age he retired from Rome to Tarentum, where he 
died, having nearly reached his ninetieth year. A few 
fragments only of his works are left, which have-been 
publifhed in the Corpus Poetaruin Latinorum of VofTius. 
PA'CY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eure, on the Eure, formerly furrounded with walls: 
eight miles fouth-weft of Vernon, and eleven eaft of Evreux. 
PACZANO'W, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Sandomirz : twenty-eight miles eaft of Sandomirz. 
PAD, f. [from paab, Sax. whence likewife paaS, or 
path.] The road; afoot-path.—We have feen this to be 
the difcipline of the date, as well as of the pad. L'Ejirange. 
The fquire of the pad and the knight of the pod 
Find their pains no more baulk’d, and their hopes no 
mOrecrod. Prior. 
An eafy-paced horfe.-—Let him walk afoot with his pad 
in his hand ; but let not them be accounted no poets 
who mount and fhew their horfemandiip. Dry den's Ded. 
to Jicv. — I would have let you on an ealier pad, and re¬ 
lieved the wandering knight with a night’s lodging. Pope's 
Lett. —>A robber that infeds the roads 011 foot.—A low 
foft faddle ; a cufliion or bolder; properly, a faddle or 
bolder fluffed with draw ; [from paja, Span, draw.] 
Tremellius uaas called Jcropha, or fow, becaufe he hid 
his neighbour’s fow under a pad, and commanded his wife 
to lie thereon ; he fware that he had no fow but the great 
fow that lay there, pointing to the pad and the fow his 
wife. Camden. 
We fliall not need to fay what lack 
Of leather was upon his back ; 
For that was hidden under pad. Hudibras. 
To PAD, v. n. To travel gently.—To rob on foot; to 
lurk about the highways in order to rob.—Sermons, laid 
I ; give them me ; my boy fliall carry them in his port¬ 
manteau, and eafe you of that luggage. But, laid he, 
fuppofe your boy fhould be robbed. That’s pleafar.t, 
faid I ; do you think there are parfons padding upon the 
road for fermons ? Dr. Pope's Life of Bp. Ward, 1697.—■ 
To beat a way fmooth and level. 
PAD'-NAG, J'. An ambling nag.—An eafy pad-nag • to 
ride out a mile. Dr. Pope. 
PA'DA, a town of Hindoodan, in the circar of Gang- 
pour : thirty miles ead of Gangpour, and fixty north- 
eaft of Sumbulpour. Lat. 21.58. N. Ion. 84. 39. E. 
PA'DAN-A'RAM, [Heb. the Plains of Aram.] Ano¬ 
ther name for Mesopotamia, which fee.—But perhaps 
Padan Aram was only the north-weft part of Mefopota- 
inia. Brown's Dift. Bible. 
PADANG', a feaport town on the weft coaft of the 
ifland of Sumatra. This is the head fettlement which 
the Dutch poflefs on this ifland, and is governed by a 
diredlor and council. The fort is lituated within forty 
yards of the north bank of the river, being a fquare, 
with four baftions of ftone, and the walls about nine feet 
high. On the fouth fide of the river are high moun¬ 
tains, which extend to the fea-coaft. The water is very 
good; and cattle and fruit plentiful and cheap. Lat. o. 
40. S. Ion. 99. 48. E. 
PADANG', a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the wefl^coaftof Borneo. Lat.o. 33.S. Ion. 109.21. E. 
PADANG GOO'CHIF,, a river of Sumatra, which 
divides the Lampoon-country, or a portion of thefouth- 
ern extreme of the ifland, from Paflumnah, near the fea- 
coaft. 
PAD'AR, f. Grouts; coarfe flour. Not nfed. —In the 
bolting and fitting of near fourteen years of fuch power 
and favour, all that came out could-not be expedled to • 
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be pure and fine meal, but nuift have amongft it padar 
and bran in this lower age of human fragility. Wutton. 
PADASJO'KI, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland : thir¬ 
ty-fix miles north-eaft of Tavafthus. 
PADA'TO, a town of Mexico, in the province of Cu- 
liacan : forty miles north-weft of Culiacan. 
PAD'BERG, a town and citadel of the duchy of Weft- 
phalia: four miles fouth of Stadtberg, and five eaft of 
Brilon. 
PAD'BURY, a village in Buckinghamfliire, three miles 
fouth-eaft of Buckingham, on a river that runs into 
the Oufe, the bridge over which was erefted in 1742, in 
purfuance of an aft of parliament. 
PAD'DER, J'. A robber; a foot-highwayman.—If he 
advanced himfelf by a voluntary engaging in unjuft 
quarrels, he has no better pretence to honour than what 
a refolute and fuccefsful padder may challenge. Collier. 
Worfethan all the clattering tiles, and worfe 
Than thoufand padders, is the poet’s curfe ; 
Rogues that in dog-days cannot rhyme forbear ; 
But without mercy read to make you hear. Dnjden. 
PAD'DER, in geography. See Pudda,r. 
PAD'DINGTON, a parifh and village in the hundred 
of Olfulfton, and county of Middlefex, is fituated at the 
north-weftern extremity of London. The parifh, which 
extends about two miles in length, is bounded by Ken- 
fington, St Margaret’s Weftminfter, and St. George’s 
Hanover-fquare, on the fouth ; by Wilfdon on the north ; 
by Marybone on the eaft ; and by Kenfington, and a de¬ 
tached part of Chelfea, on the weft. According to a 
furvey, its area comprifes 1197 acres, 3 roods, and 30 
perches, of which about one hundred acres are laid-out as 
garden-ground, and the remainder is occupied by houfes, 
and appropriated to pafturage. 
The village of Paddington ftands about a mile to the 
north of Tyburn-tnrnpike. Like moft of the other vil¬ 
lages connedled with the metropolis, it has increafed 
greatly in extent of late years ; and, fince the opening 
of the canal in 1801, (fee vol. xiii. p. 130.) has become 
a place of conliderable commercial importance. This 
canal, which derives its name from the parifh, branches 
off from the Grand Junflion canal near Norwood ; and, 
palling through the parifhes of Ealing, Northall, Green- 
ford, Perivale, Harrow, Adion, Fulham, Twyford, and 
Wilfdon, as well as the detached parts of Chelfea and 
Kenfington, terminates at this, village in a large baiin, 
on the lides of which are convenient wharfs and ware- 
houfes, belonging to the Paddington-canal company. 
The advantages of this cut muft be obvious to everyone 
at all acquainted with the inland navigation of this coun¬ 
try. By entering the Grand Junction canal, it affords 
to Paddington, diredtly or indiredtly, a navigable com¬ 
munication with almoft every trading or manufacturing 
town in the kingdom. The Regent’s Canal, which con- 
nedls the Paddington Canal with the river Lea, and con- 
fequently with the Thames below London, was opened 
on the 1 ft of Auguft laft. This canal, which has been 
nearly feven years in making, unites all the principal ca¬ 
nals in the kingdom with the river Thames. From its 
commencement, to the termination at Limehoufe, it ex¬ 
tends nearly nine miles, and within that fpace are com- 
prifed 12 locks and 37 bridges. The conftrudtion of the 
former is on fo excellent a principle, that only three mi¬ 
nutes and a half are occupied in parting each of them. 
The work was projedled by J. Nafh, efq. the royal archi¬ 
tect, under whofe luperintendance it has been completed. 
The tunnel under Ill ington -hill is about three quarters of a 
mile in length, and partes beneath the bed of the New River. 
Paddington manor in ancient times conftituted part of 
the pofleflions of Weftminfter Abbey, At the diffolution 
it was annexed to the bifhopric of Weftminfter; and, 
when that fee was abolifhed, which was foon after its 
eftablifhment, Edward VI. transferred it to Ridley bifhop 
of London, and his fucceflors, along with the advowfon 
of the church, which is fuppofed to have firft become’pa¬ 
rochial 
