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they Teemed to touch one another. All of them are finely 
proportioned, agreeably fhaped, and compofed of white 
ftones, which at that diftance appeared like marble. In 
taking a draught of thefe ruins, Mr. Bruce divided the 
whole into fix angular views, for which the fituation of 
the place is very convenient. The columns are all un¬ 
covered to the very bafes, the ground on which they are 
"built being hard and folid. The views he took were 
upon large paper; Tome of the columns being reprefented 
a foot long, and fome of the figures in the fore-ground of 
the Temple of the Sun being near four inches. Before he 
left Palmyra he obferved its latitude with a reflecting 
quadrant of Hadley; but, as the inftrument was out of 
order, he could not determine it exactly. In his opinion, 
however, 33 0 58' is not far diftant from truth. From 
fuch obfervation as he could make on the longitude, he 
concluded it to be 37 0 9' eaft from Greenwich. Mr. 
Wood makes the latitude 34 0 north. It ftands about 50 
leagues fouth-eaft of Aleppo, as much from Damafcus, 
and 20 leagues weft of the Euphrates. 
Palmyra was viiited fo lately as the year 1818, by Wm. 
Macmichael, M.D. F..R.S. one of Dr. Radcliffe’s travelling- 
fellows for the univerfity of Oxford. He obferves, that 
the ruins continue in a ftate of furprifing prefervation, 
owing partly to the drynefs of the climate, but more to 
the circumftance of there being no other city in the neigh¬ 
bourhood to which the materials can be appropriated. 
The prefent village, or rather hamlet, of Arabs, is con¬ 
tained in the great court of the Temple of the Sun, 
juft as it appeared to Mr. Wood feventy years ago, and as 
fhown on our Plate. Journey from Mofcow to Conjlantino- 
ple; Lond. 1819. 
Mr. Wood obferves, that, “ notwithftanding its mag¬ 
nificence, there is a greater famenefs in the architecture 
of Palmyra than at Rome, Athens, and other great cities, 
wliofe ruins evidently point out different ages, as much 
from the variety of their manner as their different ftages 
of decay ; but, except four Ionic half-columns in the 
Temple of the Sun, and two in one of the maufoleums, 
the whole architecture of Palmyra is Corinthian, richly 
ornamented with fome very ftriking beauties, and fome 
as vifible faults.” 
PALMY'RA, a poft-town of America, and the only 
port of entry and delivery in the ftate of Tenneffee ; fo 
conftituted by law of the United States in 1797 ; fituated 
on the fouth bank of Cumberland river, twelve miles 
fouth-weft of Clarkfville. Lat. 36. 13.N. Ion. 87. 56. W. 
PALMY'RA, a townfhip of Maine, in the county of 
Somerfet, having 117 inhabitants.—A townfhip of Wayne 
county, in Pennfylvania, having 336 inhabitants.—A 
townfhip of Knox county, in the Indiana territory. 
PALNAU'D, a county or diftriCt of Hindooftan, fitu¬ 
ated on the fouth fide of the Kiftnah ; about 70 miles in 
length, and 15 in breadth; between Golconda and the 
circar of Guntoor. It is a part of the Carnatic. Time- 
rycotta is the principal place. 
PA'LO, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland of Leyta. 
Lat. 11. 15. N. Ion. 1Z4. 55. E. < 
PA'LO, a cape on the coaft of Albania: fix miles north- 
weft of Durazzo. 
PA'LO, a town of Naples, in the province of Bari: 
three miles weft of Bittetto. 
PA'LO, a town of Italy, on the fea-coaft, defended by 
a ftrong caftle : thirteen miles weft-north-weft of Rome. 
PALOC'ZA, a town of Hungary: eleven miles eaft of 
Szeben. 
PALOMA'R, a town of Spain, in Arragon: twenty- 
two miles north ofTeruel. 
PALOMBA'RA, a town of Naples, in Lavora: five 
miles north-eaft of Capua. 
PALOME'RA, a feaport-town, on the north-eaft coaft 
of the ifland of Majorca. 
PALOMI'NO y VELAS'CO (Don Antonio), aSpanifh 
painter, born in Valencia, in 1653. He ftudied at Cordova 
in grammar, philofophy, theology, and jurifprudence. 
PAL 
The elements of his art he acquired of Don Juatl de 
Valdes Seal; and, to acquaint himfelf with the ftyles of 
the different fchools, he went to Madrid in 1678. Here 
he painted the gallery del Cierzo, and pleafed the king 
and the minifter; and in 1688 he was made painter to the 
king. He was overwhelmed with commiflions, for many 
of which he made only the defigns ; but, whatever was 
begun and terminated by himfelf, in frefco or in oil, 
poflfefles invention, defign, and colour, in the eflential, 
and tafte and fcience in the ornamental, parts. 
As a literary man, Palomino may be confidered the 
Vafari of Spain; as copious, as credulous, and as negli¬ 
gent of dates ; but eminently ufeful with the emendations 
of modern and more accurate biographers. His work is 
divided into three parts, theoretical, practical, and.bio¬ 
graphical. The two firft bear one title, viz. “ El Mufco 
Pibtorico y Efcala Optica.” The third part, diftinguifned 
by that of “ El Parnaffo Efpanol Pintorefco Laureada,” 
&c. Madrid, 1724, though perhaps only intended as an 
appendix to the two former, is by far the molt important 
and interefting. 
PALONGO'LA, a town of Congo, on the Lelunda : 
two miles fouth of St. Salvador. 
PALONGONG', a town of Matamba: feventy miles 
fouth-eaft of St. Maria de Matamba. 
PA'LOR. See Pollior. 
PA'LOS, a reef in the Straits of Macaflar, near the weft 
coaft of Celebes. Lat. 0.24. S. Ion. 119.15. E. 
PA'LOS, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland of 
Celebes, in a bay to which it gives name. Lat. o. 56. S. 
Ion. 119. 39. E. 
PA'LOS, a feaport-town of Spain, in the province of 
Seville, at the mouth of the Tinto, where the tide forms 
a tolerable harbour. In the year 1492, Chriftopher 
Columbus failed from this port, on his firft voyage for the 
difcovery of the New World : two miles fouth of Moguer. 
Lat. 37. 10. N. Ion. 6. 58. W. 
PALOT'TA, a town of Hungary, with a caftle, and 
fortified with a high wall and a moat: eight miles weft- 
fouth-weft of Stuhl-Weifenburg. 
PALOT'ZA, a town of Hungary, on the river Poprat: 
112 miles north-north-weft of Zatmar, and fifty-four 
north of Cafchau. 
PALOU', or Pa'lo, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
pachalic of Erzerum, fituated on the edge of a mountain 
and the banks of the Euphrates: the population amounts 
to about 8000 fouls, Turks, Armenians, and Kurds. 
The river here is very rapid ; and, from the bad con¬ 
firmation of the bridges, made of wood, whole caravans 
have been fwept away after the melting of the fnow. 
The diftridt of Palou is four days’ journey in length, and 
two in breadth. The town is eighty-five miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Erzerum, and fixty north of Diarbekir. 
Lat. 38. 52. N. Ion. 39. 40. E. 
PALOU'E, f. in botany. See Ginnannia. 
PALPABIL'ITY,y! [from palpable.] Quality of being 
perceivable to the touch.—He firft found out palpability 
of colours ; and, by the delicacy of his touch, could dii- 
tinguilh the different vibrations of the heterogeneous 
rays of light. Arbuthnot and Pope's Mart. Scrib. 
PAL'PABLE, adj. [ palpable , Fr. palpo and palpor , Lat.] 
Perceptible by the touch : 
I fee thee yet, in form as palpable 
As this which now I draw. Shahefpeare. 
Darknefs muft overfhadow all his bounds, 
Palpable darknefs, and blot out three days. Milton. 
Grofs; coarfe; eafily detedled.—That grofler kind of hea- 
thenifli idolatry, whereby they worfliipped the very works 
of their own hands, was an abfurdity tb reafon fo palpable, 
that the prophet David, comparing idols and idolaters 
together, maketh almoft no odds between them. Hooker. 
•—Plain ; eafily perceptible.—They would no longer be 
content with the invifible monarchy of God, and God 
difmified them to the palpable dominion of Saul. Hohjday. 
PAL'PABLENESS, 
