PAL 
to learn the novelties which were acquired in the prac¬ 
tice of his art, in thefe great fchools of medicine. He 
was the contriver of feveral improvements in the form of 
chirurgical and oblfetrical inftruments, and the author of 
feveral ufeful treatifes on anatomy and furgery, which ob¬ 
tained confiderable popularity. He died at Ghent in the 
year 1730, at the advanced age of eighty years. 
His firft work, publiflied at Ghent in 1701, was a trea- 
tife on “ Ofteology,” in Flemifh ; which was afterwards 
much enlarged by himfelf, and tranflated into German 
and French. It is particularly full relative to the bones 
of the head, and w'as cited with approbation by fome of 
the mod eminent profeffors of the time. In 1708, he 
publiflied his “ Defcription Anatomique des Parties de 
la Femme qui fervent a la Generation,” together with 
Licetus’s Treatife on Monflers, and a defcription of one 
born at Ghent in 1703. This work is chiefly a compila¬ 
tion ; but he has given fome original obfervations on the 
courfe of the blood in the fcetus, and on monflers. In 
1710, he printed his “ Anatomie Chirurgicale, ou De¬ 
fcription exafte des Parties du Corps humain, avec des 
.Remarques utiles aux Chirurgiens dans la Pratique de 
leur Art,” in French; and in 1718 reprinted it in Fle¬ 
mifh. It was regarded as a valuable work, and was re- 
publifhed after his death, in France, Italy, and Germany. 
Palfyn alfo tranflated the treatife of Anthony Petit 
on Difeafes of the Eyes, into Flemifh, adding feveral 
other trails on the fame fubjeft. Gen. Biog. 
PALGUN'GE, a town of Bengal : twenty-two miles 
fouth of Curruckdeah. Lat. 24. 3. N. Ion. 86. 20. E. 
PALIACUR', a town of the ifland of Ceylon, in a 
bay on the weft coaft : eighty miles north-north-weft of 
Trinkamaly. Lat. 9. 33. N. Ion. 80.14. E. 
PALIAPA'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna¬ 
tic ! fifteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Polore. 
PALIA'R, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
bay of Bengal four miles fouth of Sadras. 
PALIBO'THRA, in-ancient geography, a very confi- 
derable town of India, both with regard to extent and 
wealth, fituated on the right bank of the Ganges, and at 
the confluence of a large river with it, which river Ar¬ 
rian calls Erranobos, inferior to none but the Ganges and 
Indus, and which Pliny denominates Jomanes, (Jumnah.) 
This ancient author fays, in one place, that the Jomanes 
entered the Ganges by Palibothra, between Methora and 
Clifobara or Caryfobara : but in another place he men¬ 
tions the conflux of the Ganges and Jomanes; and in the 
next article fays, that Palibothra is fituated 425 miles be¬ 
low that point of conflux. Pliny’s Palibothra, fays ma¬ 
jor Rennel, is clearly Patna; and it is probable that 
Strabo meant the fame place, by the diftance from the 
mouth of the Ganges. Palibothra w'as the capital of the 
Prafii 5 and in dimenfions eighty ftadia in length and fifty 
broad, or about ten miles long and nearly two wide. 
TAL'ICATE, a fea-port town of India, on this fide of 
the Ganges. It is feated on the coaft of Coromandel, in 
the kingdom of Carnate, feventy miles north of Fort 
St. George. Here the Dutch had a faftory, and a fort 
called the Fort of Guelderland. Lat. 13. 34. N. Ion. 
80. 1. E. 
PALICAU'DCHERY, a ftrong town of Hindooftan, 
in the country of Calicut. This place was taken from 
Hyder Ali in the year 1783, by the Britifh under Colonel 
Fullarton, after a long and vigorous defence, with a 
garrifon of 4000 men. It was afterwards evacuated ; 
but at the peace ceded to the Englifh ; and, as it com¬ 
mands the paffage between the two coafts of Malabar and 
Coromandel, by way of the Trichinopoly and Coimbe- 
tore countries, it was of great importance to them, when 
Coimbetore was in the hands of Tippoo, becaufe, by 
our holding this place on the weft, and Dindigul on the 
eaft of Coimbetore, that province was of little ufe to him 
in the time of war, without a very large force to protect 
it. But the fall of that fovereign, and the reduction of 
his territories, have effected a total change of circum- 
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fiances, (See Memoir of a Map of the Peninfula of In¬ 
dia, by Major Rennel.) It is twenty-iix miles fouth-weft 
of Coimbetore, and feventy fouth-eaft of Calicut. Lat. 
10. 58. N. Ion. 76.45. E. 
PAL'ICE GRE'AN, incorreftly written Paliee or 
Pallas Green, hfmall poft-town of the county ofLimerick, 
Ireland. It is fituated at the foot of Knock Grean, the 
Hill of the Sun, which is remarkable for its bafaltic pil¬ 
lars, about a mile from the village, towards Limerick. 
Thefe pillars, though much inferior to thofein the coun¬ 
ty of Antrim, are calculated to arreft the attention of 
the traveller, and have led to an examination of the hill, 
and of other parts of the. county, which will probably be 
laid before the public. Paliee Grean is twelve miles and 
a quarter eaft ofLimerick, and about ninety-fix fouth-weft 
from Dublin. 
PALI'CI, or Palisci, two deities, fons of Jupiter by 
Thalia, whom ASfchylus calls /Etna, in a tragedy which 
is now loft, according to Macrobius. The nymph Aitna, 
when pregnant, entreated her lover to remove her from 
the purfuits of Juno. The god concealed her in the 
bowels of the earth ; and, when the time of her delivery 
was come, the earth opened and brought into the world 
two children, who received the name of Palici, uno tov 
waAi* ixso-Sat, “becaufe they came again into the world 
from the bowels of the earth.” Thefe deities were wor- 
fhipped with great ceremonies by the Sicilians ; and near 
their temple were two fmall lakes of fulplmreous water, 
which were fuppofed to have fprung out of the earth at 
the fame time that they were born. Near thefe pools it 
was ufual to take the moll folemn oaths, by thofe who 
wifhed to decide controverfies and quarrels. If any of 
the perfons who took the oaths perjured themfelves, they 
were immediately puniftied in afupernatural manner ; and 
thofe whofe oath, by the deities of the place, was fincere, 
departed unhurt. The Palici had alfo an oracle, which 
was confulted upon great emergencies, and which ren¬ 
dered the trueft and molt unequivocal anfwers. In a fu- 
perftitious age, the altars of the Palici were ftained with 
the blood of human facrifices; but this barbarous cullom 
was foon abolifhed, and the deities were fatisfied with 
their ufual offerings. Lempriere's Claffical Diet. 
PALICON'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna¬ 
tic: twenty-five miles weft of Arcot. —A town of Hin¬ 
dooftan, in Travancore: fifty-five miles north of Anjenja. 
•—A town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Gooty-. twenty 
miles weft of Gooty. 
PALICOURE'A, f. in botany. See Stephanium. 
PALIFICA' LION, J. [pains, Lat.] The aft or prac¬ 
tice of making ground firm with piles.—I have find no¬ 
thing of pacification, or piling of the ground-plot, com¬ 
manded by Vitruvius, when we build upon a moilt foil. 
Wotton. 
PALIFIS'CO, a town of Naples, in Lavora : five miles 
north of Sezza. 
PALIGIIE'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Cuddapa : twenty-four miles weft jff Cuddapa. 
PA.LIL'IA, a feaft among the ancient Romans in ho¬ 
nour of the goddefs Pales. The Palilia, by fome called 
Paiilia, (a pariendo,) were celebrated by the fliepherds 
on the day of the foundation of Rome, which, according 
to Cato, was the nth of the calends of May, or the 21ft 
of April, to befeech that goddefs to take care of their 
flocks, and preferve them from wolves and difeafes. On 
that day the people purified themfelves, and alfo their 
folds and flocks, with water and brimftone, and burned 
the fnrub called favine, whofe fmoke diffufed itfeif all 
over the fold. After this, they offered in facrifice to the 
goddefs milk, boiled wine, and millet : then followed 
the feaft. Part of theceremony confifted in lighting heaps 
of ftraw, and jumping over them. Ovid (de Fell:. 1 . iv.) 
deferibes this whole folemnity at full length. Thefe ce¬ 
remonies were accompanied with mufical inftruments, fitch 
as flutes, cymbals, &c. 
PALIL'IA, f. in botany. See Heuconia. 
3 PALILIC'IUM,. 
