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year began by the celebration of his feftivals. Ovid. 
Fa/ 1 . 129. 
To PATU'LICATE, v. n. [from the Lat. patulus, 
open.] To expand; to become open. Cole. 
PAT'ULOUS, adj. [from the Lat. pateo, to lie open.] 
Having an expanded flower, blowing open. 
PATURA'GES, a town of Auftria, in the diftri£l of 
Mons. The place contains 3208 inhabitants. 
PATUX'EN, a river of America, which runs into the 
Chefapeak thirty miles fouth of Annapolis, in lat. 38. 
21. N. Ion. 76. 32. W. 
PATUX'ET, a river of America, which runs into the 
Providence River five miles below the town of Provi¬ 
dence. 
PATZ'LAWITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Olmutz : eighteen miles fouth of Olmutz. 
PAU, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 
tridl, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees;, before 
the revolution the capital of Bearn ; fituated on a river 
called the Gave of Pau. It was the feat of a parliament, 
a governor, a fenefchal, &c. and contained an univerfity, 
an academy of fciences, two hofpitals, a college, and fe- 
veral convents. Here are manufa£tures of cloth, linen, 
&c. The hams cured here are highly efteemed. It was 
the ancient refidence of the kings of Navarre; and will 
be for ever memorable in hiftory, fince it was the birth¬ 
place of Henry IV. That immortal prince was born in 
the caltle, then the ufual refidence of the kings of Na¬ 
varre. “ It ftands on one of the molt romantic and 
lingular fpots (fays Wraxall) I have ever feen, at the weft: 
end of the town, upon the brow of a rock which termi¬ 
nates perpendicularly. Below runs the Gave, a river or 
rather a torrent which rifes in the Pyrenees, and empties 
itfelf into the Adour. On the other fide, about two miles 
off, is a ridge of hills covered with vineyards, which pro¬ 
duce the famous Vin de Jorengon, fo much admired ; and 
beyond all, at the diftance of nine leagues, appear the 
Pyrenees themfelves, covering the horizon from eaft to 
weft) and bounding the profpecl. The caftle, though 
now in a ftate of decay, is ftill habitable ; and the apart¬ 
ments are hung with tapeftry, faid to be the work of Jane 
queen of Navarre, the mother of Henry IV. Gallon IV. 
count de Foix, who married Leonora heirefs of the 
crown of Navarre, began the edifice in 1464 ; but his fuc- 
ceflor Henry d’Albret, grandfather of Henry IV. com¬ 
pleted and enlarged it about the year 1519, when he 
made choice of the city of Pau for his refidence, and 
where, during the remainder of his reign, he held his 
little court. In a chamber, which by its lize was formerly 
a room of ftate, is a fine whole-length portrait of that Jane 
queen of Navarre whom I have juft mentioned. Her drels 
is very fplendid, and refembles thofe in which our Eliza¬ 
beth is ufually painted. Her head-drefs is adorned with 
pearls; round her neck fire wears a ruff; and her arms, 
which are like wife covered with pearls, are concealed by 
her habit quite down to the wrift. At her waift hangs 
by a chain a miniature portrait. The fingers of her right 
hand play on the firings of a guitar; and in her left Ihe 
holds an embroidered handkerchief. The painter has 
drawn her as young, yet not in the firft bloom of youth. 
Her features are regular, her countenance thin, and rather 
inclining to long ; the eyes hazel, and the eyebrows finely 
arched. Her nofe is well formed though large, and her 
mouth pretty. She was a great princefs, of high fpirit, 
and undaunted magnanimity. Her memory is not re¬ 
vered by the French hiftorians, becaufe fhe was the pro- 
tedlrefs of the Huguenots and the friend of Coligni ; but 
the adlions of her life evince her diftinguilhed merit.” In 
one of the adjoining chambers, is another portrait of 
Henry IV. himfelf when a boy ; and on the fecond floor 
is the apartment in which he was born. 
The towm, or rather city, is divided into the Eaft and 
Weft parts : the former contains 5800 inhabitants, and 
the latter 2785. Nothing can be more delightful than the 
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environs of this place, enlivened as they are by vineyards, 
by undulating grounds, and by the meanderings of the 
river Gave. Pau is i2§ polls eaft of Bayonne, 21^ Weft- 
fouth-weft of Touloufe. Lat. 43. 17. N. Ion. o. 18. W. 
Wraxall's Tour through France . Ramond's Travels in the 
Pyrenees, 1813. 
PAU (St.), a town of Spain, in the province of Cata¬ 
lonia ; twelve miles north-weft of Gerona. 
PA'VAGE,J. [pavagium, Lat.] in our old law-books, 
money paid towards the paving of ftreets, or highways. 
PAV'AIS, or Pavache,/. in ancient armour, was a 
large fliield, or rather a portable mantlet, capable of co¬ 
vering a man from head to foot, and probably of fufficient 
thicknefs to refill the miflive weapons then in ufe. Thefe 
were, in lieges, carried by fervants whole bufinefs it was 
to cover their mailers with them, whilft they with their 
bows and arrows ftiot at the enemy on the ramparts. In 
theJift of the army that accompanied king Edw'ard III. 
to Calais, we find many “Pavifors:” thefe were probably 
men trained to the ufe of the pavais, which mull have 
required dexterity as well as courage. The pavaches 
were fometimes fupported by props : they were alfo ufed 
at fea to defend the fides of the veflels, like the prefent 
netting of our fliips of war : this defence w'as called a “pa- 
vifade,” and may be feen in the reprefentation of ancient 
Ihips. The pavais was rectangular at top, the fides being 
confequently parallel, but the angle is rounded off at the 
bottom. Under the protection of the pavaches, workmen 
alfo approached to the foot of the wall in order to lap it. 
PAVA'KA, or Agni, in Hindoo mythology, is the 
regent of fire, and is a deity frequently invoked in the 
variety of facrificial ceremonies obferved by that fuper- 
ftitious race. The element of fire being of fiuch vital im¬ 
portance in all the operations of nature, and in its evi¬ 
dent and hidden phenomena lb ftriking and myfterious, 
it has, of courfe, excited the wonder and invited the re- 
fearch of the vulgar and the wife of all ages and nations. 
The Sun, the fuppofed fource of heat, is naturally joined 
with his offspring in the awe and adoration with which 
each is contemplated ; and among the Hindoos, as with 
other polytheifts, we find the attributes and charadters 
of the regents of light and heat often coalefcing. The 
Hindoos have, however, depidted their fire-king in co¬ 
lours and forms not common to others. He is painted 
of a deep red ; with two faces, three legs, and feven arms, 
riding on a ram, and bearing a flag with that animal on 
its field. Few, if any, of the numerous ceremonies of 
the Brahmans are complete without invocatory oblations 
to the all-pervading element of fire, or to its perfoniflca- 
tion, under the name of Pavaka or Agni; the latter is in¬ 
deed his moil popular and common name. (See Hin- 
doostan, vol.x. p. 119.) In facrificial ceremonies, as 
ordained by Menu, Agni is generally the deity primarily 
invoked. A Brahman is diredted, in his domeftic fire for 
drafting the food that he daily offers to the gods, to make 
an oblation, “ Firft, to Agni, god of fire, and to the lunar 
god, feverally ; then to both of them at once.” (C. iii. 
v. 85.) Again, in offering to the Dii Manes: “The di¬ 
vine manes are always pleafed with an oblation in empty 
glafles, naturally clean, on the banks of rivers, and in 
iolitary fpots. Firft, as it is.ordained, having fatisfied 
Agni, Soma, and Yama, with clarified butter, let him 
proceed to latisfy the manes of his progenitors.” C. iii. 
v. 207, 211. 
The Brahmans fubdivide the igneous element, firft, 
into two, the folar and terreftrial, or creative and de- 
ltrudtive fire. Here Agni, as its general perfonification, 
coalefces with Brahma and Siva; and hence, it has been 
furmifed, his two faces. Terreftrial fire is again fub- 
divided into three, viz. the nuptial, the ceremonial or 
funeral, and the facrificial. Agni’s three feet nt3y allude 
to thefe, or to the influence of fire over the three regions 
of the univerfe. The fun is preceded by a feven-headed 
horfe, or by feven horfes yoked to his car; allufive, it is 
fuppofedj 
