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fcendantsof the natives of the Canaries, who are a tall 
people; and it is faid that they bury their dead on the 
eaftern Chores, as looking towards the country of their 
anceftors. Bougainville fuggefts, that they lead the life 
of Tartars. They are faid to ramble through the immenfe 
plains of South America, being conftantly on horfeback, 
purfuing the game or wild bealts with which thefe plains 
abound, and drefling or covering themfelves with their 
Ikins. Pinkerton, vol. ii. Adm, Cordova's Voyage of B)if- 
covery to the Strait of Magellan, by order of the Kingof Spain. 
PATAGO'NIAN, adj. Belonging to Patagonia. 
PATAGO'NI AN, f. A native of Patagonia. 
PATAGON'ICA, or Patagon'ula, f. in botany. 
See Cordia patagonula, vol. v. 
PATA'IA, or Pathay, a town of Hungary : feven 
miles north of Colocz3. 
PATAK', a town of Hungary, on the Latorcza, where 
the Proteftants have a college : forty-four miles weft- 
north-weft of Munkaclz, and twenty-five fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Cafchau. 
PATALA', a town of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 
vaftland : forty-five miles north-north-eaft of Jamiio. 
PAT'ALA, one of the receptacles for finners, or hells 
of the Hindoos. It means rather the lower regions, a 
tort of purgatory perhaps, over which Yama prefides, 
who is, however, ulually ftyled King of Hell. See Yama. 
PAT'ALA-DE'VI, a name of the Hindoo goddefs Par- 
vati, in her character of confort of Yama, regent of the 
lower or infernal regions. In this character the corref- 
ponds with Proferpine, or Hecate, and, like the Grecian 
goddefs, has a triple character, being fometimes called Tri- 
fakti-devi, and Tri-fakti-devi-kumari, meaning the god¬ 
defs with three powers, and the thrice-potent-virgin- 
goddefs. Thus the triple-virgin-goddefs Diana is fo 
named as a terreftrial deity ; and Parvati is fimilarly 
named Bhu-devi, Goddefs of the Earth. 
PATAMAT', j, A two-mafted velfel ufed in India; 
each mall carries one tail of four unequal fides. Roberts's 
Indian Gloffary. , 
PATANAM', a town of Hindooftan, in Marawar: 
forty miles north-weft of Ramanadporum. 
PATA'NI, a town of Afia, and capital of a kingdom 
fubjeCt to Siam, fituated on the eaft coaft, at the bottom 
of a bay, bounded by a promontory, in the gulf of Siam ; 
containing between 7000 and 8000 inhabitants, compofed 
of fundry nations, Chinefe, Malays, Siamefe, and Euro¬ 
peans. The Siamefe have a grand pagoda, and the Ma¬ 
hometans a mofque. The Siamefe in general cultivate 
the land; the Chinefe are moftly artifans: 250 miles 
north of Malacca. Lat. 6. 58. N. Ion. 101.40. E. 
PATANJA'LI, one of the fyftems or fchools among 
the Hindoos. It correfponds, iivmany points, with that 
of the Stoics, and its promulgator, Patanjala, with Zeno; 
but the commentators on the Hindoo fyftems have bu¬ 
ried the fuccinCt works of the founders in fuch a mafs of 
illuftration, as they term it, that their precife differences 
are not eafily determinable. 
PATAPA', a town on the north coaft of the ifland of 
Samar. Lat. 12. 40. N. Ion. 125. 14. E. 
PATAPAS'CO, a river of Maryland, which runs into 
the Chefapeak three miles fouth of Baltimore. 
PAT'ARA, in ancient geography. See the modern 
name, Patera. 
PATA'RD, or Patac', /. A copper coin in Flanders. 
Patacs are florins or gilders of 20 ftivers, each of which 
was formerly fubdivided into ifi phennings, but for a 
long time they have been divided into 12 parts or de- 
niers. Accounts were formerly kept at Dunkirk, as at 
Antwerp, in florins, patards, and phennings ; but of late 
years the new French fyftem of francs and centimes has 
been adopted ; and the new coins of France are alfo ufed 
at Dunkirk. At Lifle, a patard, or ftiver, is reckoned at 
ji fou, or 15 deniers; however, theprefent current coins 
are chiefly thofe of France. 
PATAR'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1281. 
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the Sarthe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Mamers ; containing 9941 inhabitants. 
PATASPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twenty-eight 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Midnapour. Lai. 22. 2. N. 
Ion, 87. 37. E. 
PATA'TE, a town of South-America, in the audience 
of Quito, and juriftliCtion of Riobamba; celebrated for 
its fugar. 
PATAVIL'CA. See Pativilca. 
PATAVIN'ITY, f [patavinitas, Lat.] Among critics, 
a fault objected to in the writings of Livy, which he de¬ 
rived from his country Padua, by the ancients called 
Patavium. Afinius Follio, as we are informed by Quin¬ 
tilian, firft taxed Livy with patavinity. But what this 
patavinity confided in, the critics have been much puz¬ 
zled to find out. All we know for certain is, that it was 
a fault in the language of Livy, not in the fentiments or 
manners. In all probability it is one of thofe delicacies 
that are loft in a dead language. 
Dan. Georg. Morhof has an exprefs treatife “ De Pata- 
vinitate Liviana,” printed at Kiel in 1685 ; from which 
w'e gather, that he confidered pulavinity to confift in a 
certain turn of expreflion, or provincial dialeCt, contain¬ 
ing fome phrafes peculiar to the Paduefe, and not ItriCtly 
conformable to the purity and refined language of the 
authors who flourifhed in or near the Auguftan age. See 
Liv. 10. c. 2. 1 . 41. c. 27. 
PATAVI'NUS, or Padova'no (Gafpar), otherwife 
called Gafpar ab Avibus, an engraver of the Italian fchooi, 
was born at Padua in the year 1530. He appears to have 
been the pupil of Mantuanus, whofe ftyle he imitated, 
but never equalled. His prints are dated from the year 
1560 to 1580, and figned in different manners, fometimes 
in the manner that appears in the upper corner of the 
Plate of Patella, over-leaf. 
PATAVIR'CA, a town of Peru, in the jurifdiCtion 
of Santa, or Guarmey, confiding of about 60 houfes ; 
and lying upon the road from Paita to Lima, 67 miles 
north of that city. In its vicinity, at the diftance of about 
three quarters of a league, and near the fea-coaft, are the 
ruins of a palace of the Indian princes. Lat. 10. 25. S. 
PATA'VIUM, in ancient geography, a town of Italy, 
in Venetia. The honour of its foundation is afcribed to 
Antenor. It was fituated in a country fo fertile, that 
Conftantine Palseologus is faid to have declared, that 
throughout the Eaft he did not know a place fo proper 
for the feat of the terreftrial pnradife. Its citizens were 
diltinguilhed at Rome more than thofe of other towns, as 
they had a right of fuffrage in common with the Roman 
citizens themfelves. It was taken and deftroyed by At- 
tila, about the year 450 or 452, and foon after re-efta- 
blifhed by Narles. It was taken by the Lombards in 
601, and reduced to allies; but Charlemagne reftored 
its former luftre. 
We learn from Tacitus (Annal. xvi. 21.) that this 
city was accuftomed to celebrate the antiquity of its ori¬ 
gin, and the name of its founder, in annual games, faid 
to have been inftituted by that hero. Livy informs us, 
that a Naumachia, exhibited annually on one of the ri¬ 
vers that water the town, perpetuated the memory of a 
fignal victory obtained by the Paduans, long before their 
union with Rome, over a Lacedaemonian fleet, com¬ 
manded by Cleonymas. They are alfo faid to have not 
unfrequently aflifted the Romans, and contributed in no 
fmall degree to their victories, particularly over the 
Gauls, the common enemy of both dates, while an im¬ 
menfe population furnilhed them with the means of giving 
efteCt to their meafures, by lending powerful armies into 
the field. Padua afterwards fubmitted to the genius of 
Rome, but fubmitted with dignity, and was accordingly 
treated not as a conquered, but an allied; republic: (he 
was admitted to a participation not only of the franchife, 
but even of the riches, of Rome, as (lie could count at one 
period 500 Roman knights among her citizens ; and drew 
by her manufactures, from the emporium of the world, 
