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pofed to do, fince he feizes upon all.—An Athenian 
named Pampliilus having robbed the public treafury, 
ave occafion to the Latin adage Pamphili portum. This 
rongly alludes to the mighty catchings of Pam at cards. 
MS. Gleanings. 
PAM'ADA, a town of Birmah, on the Ava: twenty- 
four miles north of Prone. 
PAMAKAS'SAN, a town on the north coaft of the 
ifland of Madura. 
PAMALANG', a town on the north coaft of the ifland 
of Java. Lat.6.’45.S. Ion. 109. 28. E. 
PAMANAKAN' POI'NT, a cape on the north coaft 
of the ifland of Java. Lat. 6. 12. S. Ion. 107. 54, E. 
PAMANDOO'R, a town of Hindooftan, on the coaft 
of Tinevelly : ten miles north of Tutacorin. 
PAMBAMA'CA, a mountain of South America, in 
the province of Quito. 
PAMBOU'K, the Turkifti name of the ruined city of 
Hierapoiis. See Hierapolis. 
PAMBU', a town of Thibet: twenty miles eaft of 
Tankia. 
PAM'BUK-KAL'ASI. See Bambuk-Kalasi, vol.ii. 
PAME'A, j. in botany. See Terminalia. 
PAME'LE, or Pamelan', a town of the kingdom of 
the Netherlands, on the Dender: feven miles fouth of 
Aloft. 
PAME'LIUS (James), a learned Flemiflt divine, was 
the fon of Adolphus, baron de Pamela, counfellor of ftate 
to the emperor Charles V. and born at Bruges in the year 
1536. He purfued his academical ftudies at Louvain, 
where he fpent nine years in fuccefsfully cultivating an 
acquaintance with the different branches of learning, and 
particularly facred literature. Afterwards he went for 
further improvement to the univerfity of Paris, and vi- 
fited others of the moft celebrated feminaries in Europe. 
Upon his return to Louvain, he was admitted licentiate 
in divinity, and preferred, through the intereft of his 
family, to a canonry at Bruges. He now expended con- 
flderable fums of money on the collection of a good li¬ 
brary, and particularly on the purchafe of manufcript 
copies of the writings of the fathers, by which their edi¬ 
ted works might be amended and illuftrated, and inedited 
pieces be presented to the public. To the ufe which he 
made of them, and his ability as a divine and critic, his 
works, mentioned below, bear honourable teftimony. But, 
while he was thus employed, the civil wars in the Nether¬ 
lands compelled him to retire from Bruges to St. Omer’s, 
where the bifhop made him archdeacon of his church. 
Soon afterwards Philip II. king of Spain, nominated him 
provoft of St. Saviour’s at Utrecht; which preferment 
was followed by his promotion to the vacant fee of St. 
Omer’s. While he was on his journey, however, to take 
poflefiion of this dignity, he fell tick at Mons in Hain- 
ault, where he died in 1587, when he was in the fifty- 
fecond year of his age. He publiflied, 1. B. Cypriani 
Opera omnia, a Codd. Manufc. accuratiflime recog. An- 
notationibus fparfim infertis, prasmiflaque AuCloris Vita; 
Ant. 1568 and 1589, Paris 1574, folio. 2. Tertulliani 
Opera, e MSS. Codd. auCL ac recenf. Argumentis et An- 
notationibus interjeCl. cum Tertulliani Vita et Paradoxis, 
&c. printed at Paris after his death, 1598, folio. 3. He 
prepared for the prefs a new edition of the Works of Ra- 
banusMaurus, which was publiflied at Cologne in 1626, 
in five volumes folio, accompanied with his own Com¬ 
mentaries on the book of Judith, and the Epiftle of St. 
Paul to Philemon. 4. Liturgica Latinorum, a curious 
and fcarce work, publiflied at Cologne, in 1571, in two 
volumes 4to. 5. Micrologus de ecclefiafticis Obferva- 
tionibus. 6. Catalogos Commentariorum veteran felec- 
tiorum in univerfa Biblia, 1566, 8vo. 7. Notes on the 
treatife of Cafliodorus De divinis Nominibus; Sec. Valerii 
Andrea Bibl. Belg. 
PAME'NE, a town of the ifland of Ceylon, on the eaft 
coaft : fifty-five miles fouth of Trincoli. 
PA'MF.R, a lake of Pruflia : twelve miles weft of Lick. 
Vol. XVIII, No. 1244. 
PAM 
PAMI'ERS, a town of France, and feat of a tribunal, 
in the department of the Arriege. Near it is a medicinal 
fpring: twelve miles weft of Mirepoix, and fourteen north 
ofTarafcon. Lat. 43.6. N. Ion. 1.41.E. 
PAM'ISUS, in ancient geography, a river of Meflenia, 
which had its fource in the mountains that lay towards 
the north between Meflenia and Arcadia, ran north-eaft, 
and difeharged itfelf into the fea at the extremity of the 
Meflenian gulf.—Alfo, a river of Greece, in Theflaly.— 
Alfo, a river of Lower Mcefia, in the environs of Odeflus, 
called by Ptolemy Panyfus, and placed between Odeflus 
and Mefambria. 
PAM'LICO, or Tar River, a river of North Caro¬ 
lina, which empties itfelf into a large bay of the Atlan¬ 
tic called Pamlico Sound ; the mouth of the river is in 
lat. 35.25. N. Ion. 76.42. W. 
PAM'LICO SOU'ND, a large bay on the coaft of North 
Carolina : a long narrow ftrip of land feparates it from 
the main fea, about forty miles fquare : towards the north 
it communicates with Albemarle Sound. 
PAMME'LIA, [from the Gr. wan, all, and /xeAo;, me¬ 
lody.] The title given to the firlt collection of canons, 
rounds, and catches, that was printed in England. The 
full title of thefe ingenious and exhilarating effufions is 
curious, and runs thus : “Pammelia; Mufick’s Mifcella- 
nie, or mixed varietie of pleafant Roundelays and de- k 
lightful Catches of 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, parts in one: 
None fo ordinarie as mulical, none fo muftcal as not to 
all very pleating and acceptable. London, printed by 
William Barley for R. B. and H. W. and are to be fold 
at the Spread Eagle at the north doore of Paules 
4to. 1609. The names of none of the compofers of thefe 
epigrammatic and pointed effufions have been preferved ; 
but many of them teem of great antiquity, which is dif- 
coverable both by the words and ftyle of compofition. 
Great muftcal fcience is manifefted in the canons, and 
the harmony and contrivance of the reft are excellent. 
The words, indeed, except thofe of the canons, which 
confiftof fmall portions of the Pfalms, and other parts of 
Scripture; in Latin, (which feems to imply that they 
were fet before the Reformation,) are, in general, devoid 
of wit, humour, poetry, or common fenfe. Our lyric 
poetry, during the 16th and part of the 17th century, was 
in a barbarous ftate, and far inferior to the raulic of the 
times: but the compofers teemed fo little folicitous about 
the words they had to fet, as frequently to prefer the 
fyllables of folmifation Ut re mifa j'ol la, Hey down down 
derry down, or merely Fa la, to longs of Spenfer and 
Shakefpeare. In the fame year was publiflied another 
collection, entitled “ Deuteromelia, or the Second Part 
of Mufick’s Melodie, or Melodious Muficke of Pleafant 
Roundelaies, &c. London, printed for Thomas Adams, 
dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the fign of the White 
Lyon, 1609.” This publication is much inferior to the 
preceding ; and chiefly confifts of fongs for three voices, 
in which different ftanzas are fung to the fame rnufic, 
after the manner of what are called glees. 
PAM'MENOCKE POI'NT, a cape on the north coaft 
of New Guinea. Lat. o. 24. S. Ion. 133. 21. E. 
PAM'MIN, a town of Brandenburg, in the New Mark: 
two miles fouth of Reetz. 
PAMNAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Kitchwara: thirteen miles north-weft ofBurdwar. 
PAMOACAN', a town of the ifland of Borneo, on 
the eaft coaft, near the fouth part of the ifland: 150 miles 
north-eaft of Banjer Maflim. 
PAMODUR'SE, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore: 
twenty miles fouth ofTademeri. 
PAMO'NA. See Pomona. 
PAMPANGAN', a town of the ifland of Lu?on, ca¬ 
pital of a province, populous and extenfive; the inha¬ 
bitants in general have adopted the religion and manners 
of the Spaniards. The town is fituated on the eaft coaft. 
Lat. 15. 5.N. 
PAM'PA HERMO'SA, a town of Peru, in the dio- 
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