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otlier pagodas, coined by Hyder Ally, and by the rajah 
of M.yfore, all parting for 13 fanams : alfo, fultany-rupees, 
and rajah-rupees, 26 of which pafs for 7 fultany-pagodas; 
copper dudus, called by the Englifh dubs, 260 of which 
are the market-price for a fultany-pagoda. The Ihroffs, 
when they exchange copper for gold or filver, pay at the 
rate of 234. dudus for a pagoda; but, when they change 
gold and iilver for copper, they receive 240; whiltl the 
price fixed by government is 182 dudus per pagoda: and 
the other coins exchange in proportion. At Pondicherry, 
the coins are gold pagodas, and filver rupees and fanams. 
A pagoda weighs 9 fanams; fo that three rupees are 
equal in weight to 10 pagodas; 715- pagodas weigh a 
French mark, or 3778 Engiilh grains. In fliorr, the value 
of the pagoda varies, according to its finenefs and the 
places where it is current, from 5s. 8§d. to 8s. 5d. 
The pagoda differs in lhape from all European coins: 
it has a convex fide with prominent dots, and a flat fide 
which generally bears a figure, and in fome three figures, 
of Indian idols. The ftar-pagoda is marked on the con¬ 
vex lide with a ftar; other pagodas are marked with a 
crefcent, or with an initial letter; the pagodas of Mafu- 
lipatam and Pondicherry have nothing on the convex fide 
but the dots. Tippoo’s pagodas have no figure on the 
flat fide, but a legend, which is tranflated thus, “ Maho¬ 
met, he is the authority of equity,” with the date of the 
Hegira ; on the convex fide, the name of the place wdiere 
it was coined, and generally the initial of Hyder. Kelly's 
TJnivurfal Cambift. 
PAGODA-BA'Y, a bay on tlje eaft coaft of Cochin- 
china. Lat. 12. 21. N. Ion. 109. 4. E. 
PA'GON, orST. Ignatius, one of the Ladrone-ifiands, 
about thirty-fix miles in circumference: thirty miles 
north of Amalagan. 
PAGOO'R, a town of Bootan : fixteen miles fouth of 
Talfyfudon. 
PAGOU'A BAY, a bay on the eaft coafl: of the ifland 
of Dominica. Lat. 15. 18. N. Ion. 61. 19. W. 
PAGOY'UM, a word ufed by Paracelfus and his fol¬ 
lowers, to exprefs an imaginary being, which prefides 
over, or is the occalion of, difeafes whofe caufes are lefs 
known, and which have been fuppofed to arife from en¬ 
chantment. Such is the doftrine of this firange writer, 
and on this fubjedl he has written a treatife called “ Pa- 
goyus.” 
PA'GUL, a town of Africa, in Whidah : fix miles 
north-well of Sabi. 
PAGU'RUS, f in entomology, a divifion made by 
fome authors in the Cancer tribe. See Cancer. 
PA'H A-CA'CHON, a town of Thibet: 100 miles 
fouth-weft of Hara-Toube. 
PAHA-TOM'KIN, a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 34. 30. 
N. Ion. 91. 44. E. 
PAHANG', Pahan, or Pan, a feaport-town of Ma¬ 
lacca, on the ealt coafl ; called by the Portuguefe Paon, 
and by the Arabs Fan. It is fituated about four leagues 
from the fea, and inhabited only by nobility, the people 
dwelling only in the fuburbs. This place, which is not 
very large, is enclofed by a wall, made of the trunks of 
trees joined clofe together, and about twenty-four feet 
in height, ftrengthened at each end with a baftion, but 
not filled with earth. The ftreets are fenced on both fides 
with hedges of reeds, and planted with cocoa and other 
trees ; fo that Pahang locks more like an affemblage of 
gardens belonging to a f uburb, than a regular city. The 
houfes likewife are generally built with reeds and flraw ; 
only the king ? s palace is of wood : for Pahang was for¬ 
merly the capital of a kingdom which lay between Johor 
and Patany, but at prefent it makes a part of Johor. The 
river is broad, but not navigable for galleys, except at 
high-water. The adjacent country is very low, but 
fruitful enough ; producing pepper, eagle and kalambak 
woods, gold, nutmegs, mace, fapan-wood, diamonds, 
and hog-ftones, reckoned more efficacious than the be- 
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zoar-ftones. Deeper in the country, elephants are very 
numerous, . Lat. 3.40. N. Ion. 103. 36. E. 
PAHANG', or Pu'lo Pahan, a fimall ifland in the 
Eaftern Indian Sea, near the coafl of Malacca : five miles 
eaft from the town of Pahang. 
PAHARGUN'GE, a town of Bengal: ten miles fouth- 
weft of Beyhar. 
PA'H ATFI-MO'AB, in fcripture-hiftory, was proba¬ 
bly a city built near to the place where Ehud routed the 
Moabites. Jofhua and Joab were two of its ancient 
princes : 2812 perfons belonging to Pahath-Moab re¬ 
turned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, and 200 more 
with Ezra. Ezra ii. 6. viii. 4. Some would have Pahath- 
Moab to be the name of a man ; and it is certain that one 
of that name fealed Nehemiah’s covenant of reformation. 
See Neb. x. 14. Brown's DU 5 . Bible. 
PAHA'VENS, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak : thirty miles weft of Jefd. 
PA'IIICH, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 
jas: fixty miles fouth-eaft of Medina. 
PAHI'E, /! One of the claffes of canoes or boats ufed 
by the inhabitants of the iflands in the South Sea. The 
pahie is of different fizes, from thirty to fixty feet long, 
but very narrow; atranlverle feftion of it refembles the 
fpadeof cards, the whole being much wider in proportion 
to its length. The largeft pahies are ufed for fighting, in 
which cafe they are fitted with a ftage or platform. 
PA'HO, a river on the weft coaft of the file of Celebes, 
which runs into the ftraits of Macaffar in lat. 3. 10. S. 
Ion. 119. 52. E. 
PA'IIVA, a fmall ifland on the coaft of Finland, with 
a town. Lat. 60. 29. N. Ion. 21. 30 E. 
PAHVITTRAM', a towrn of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic: fourteen miles eaft-fouth-ealt of Coveriporum. 
PAJACK', f. A corn-meafure in Ruflia, equal to 
nearly a buftiel and a half of Winchefter-meafure. 
PAJA'NA, a lake of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 
vaftland, above too miles in length. 
PAIANEL'LI, f. in botany. See Bignonia. 
PAJ'AROS. See Paxaros. 
PAI'AS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the government 
of Marafch, in the bay of Alexandretta : five miles weft 
of Alexandretta, and twenty-five fouth-weft of Marafch. 
PAJAU'NY, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : thirty 
miles weft of Kairabad. 
PAICHAM', a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat. 42.42. 
N. Ion. 120. 22. E. 
PAI'DORFF, a town of the duchy of Stiria .- fix miles 
north of Muehrau. 
PAI'GLE, f. [ paralyjis , Lat.] A kind of cowflip; 
the double cowflip.—Blue harebells, paglcs, panlies, ca- 
laminth. B. Jonfon's Mafques. 
PAIJA'LA, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia: 
eighty-fix miles north of Tornea. 
PAIL, f. [ paila , Span.] A wooden veffel in which milk 
or water is commonly carried.—In the country when 
wool is new-fhorn, they fet pails of water in the lame 
room to increale the weight. Bacon. 
New milk that all the winter never fails, 
And all the fummer overflows the pails. Dryden. 
PAI'LFUL, f The quantity that a pail will hold.— 
Yond fame cloud cannot chufe but fall by pailfuls. Shalie- 
fpeare. —When an houfe is on fire, we mult every one caft- 
in his pailful to the quenching of the flames. Bp. Hall. 
PAI'LLES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Arriege : eighteen miles weft of Mirepour. 
PAI'LLY, a town of Hindooftan, in Viliapour: five 
miles fouth-lbuth-weft of Sattarah. 
PAILMAI'L,^ The fame with pallmall, a beater or 
mall to ftrike the ball.— A ftroke with a "pailmail beetle’ 
upon a bowl, makes it fly from it. Digby on the Soul. 
PAIM'POL, a town of France, in the department of 
the North Coafts ; feven miles eaft of Treguier. 
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