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latter years was a “ Defcription of ancient Greece,” in 
Latin, publilhed after his death at Leyden in 1678, 4-to. 
A diflertation which he wrote in 1629, concerning the 
comparative merits of Lucan and Virgil, was printed at 
Leyden in 1704., in the Difiertationes feleftae et criticce 
de Poetis of J. Berkel. Huetius de Rebus, §-c. 
PAU'LMO W, a town of Bengal: five miles north-weft 
of Curruckdeah, 
PAU'LMY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre and Loire: twelve miles fouth-weftot Loches. 
PAU'LO, a town of South-America, in New Grenada : 
twenty-five miles eaft-north-eaft ofTunja. 
PAU'LO (Marco). See Polo. 
PAV'LOGRAD, a town of Ruftia, in the government 
of Ekaterinofiav : thirty-two miles eaft of Ekaterinoflav. 
Lat. 4.7. 10. N. Ion. 35. 54. E. 
PAV'LOSK, a fortrefs of Rufiia, in the province of 
Tauris, to defend the Straits of Taman, between the 
Black Sea and the fea of Azof: fix miles fouth of Kerch. 
PAVLOV, a town of Rufiia, on the north coaft of the 
Tchudlkoe Lake : twenty miles fouth of Narva. 
PAVLO'VA, a town of Ruifia, in the government of 
Irtufk, on the Lena: fixteen miles north of Olenga. 
PAVLOV'SK, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 
Voronez, on the Don : fixty-eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Voronez. Lat. jo. 24. N. Ion. 40. 14. E. 
PAVLOVSKAI'A, a town of Rufiia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Ekaterinoflav, on the Dnieper: thirty-two miles 
eaft of Ekaterinoflav. 
PAU'LSBURGH, a townfhip of Coos, in New Hamp- 
fhire, having fourteen inhabitants. 
PAU'LUN, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Kitchwara : fix miles fouth-eaft of Raajegur. 
PAU'LUS zEGINE'TA. See .CEgineta, vol. i. 
PAU'LUS ^EMIL'IUS, the name of two celebrated 
Roman generals, father and fon. See the article Rome. 
PAU'LUS (Cyrus Florus), called Paul the Silentiari/, 
becaufe he was at the head of the royal filentiaries, offi¬ 
cers whofe bufinefs it was to prevent noifes in the palace, 
flourifhed in the fixth century under the emperor Jufti- 
nian. He is faid to have been of an illuftrious family, 
and pofiefied of hereditary opulence, but to have been 
ftill more diftinguifhed for learning and eloquence. He 
was the author of poems in the Greek language, among 
which was one giving the hiftory and defcription of the 
church of St. Sophia in Conftantinople in more than a 
thoufand hexameter lines. This has come down to our 
times, and w'as publifhed in the collection of Byzantine 
hiftorians, with a tranflation and notes by Ducange. He 
alfo compofed a poem on the Pythian Thermic, and fome 
epigrams in the Anthology. See Gibbon, vol. vii. in 
which is a fine defcription of St. Sophia, taken partly 
from the work of Paulus. 
PAU'LUS HOOK', a fortified poft of United America, 
in the ftate of Jerfey, on the North River, which is here 
above 2000 yards acrofs, oppofite New York. In 1780, 
this river was fo much frozen, that carriages with heavy 
burdens palled over. 
To PAUM, v. a. [from palm, the hand ; a very ancient 
corruption, Wicliffe and Chaucer both ufing paum, or 
paivm, for the palm of the hand.] To impofe by fraud. 
See To Palm. —A rogue that locked up his drink, turned 
away our wives, cheated us of our fortunes, paumed his 
crufts upon us for mutton, and at laft kicked us out of 
doors. Swift's Tide of a 7 ub, ed. 1704. , 
PAU'NACH. See Baunach, vol. ii. 
PAUNCE, f A panfy : 
The pretie paunce, 
And the chevifaunce,. 
Shall match with the fayre flower delice. Spenfer. 
The ftiining meads 
Do boaft the paunce, the lily, and the rofe; 
And every flower doth laugh as Zephyr blows. B. Jonfon. 
PAUNCH,/ [ panfe , Fr. panga, Span, pantex, Lat.] 
The belly ; the region of the guts.—Demades, the orator, 
was talkative, and would eat hard; Antipater would fay 
of him, that he was like a facrifice, that nothing was left 
of it but the tongue and the paunch. Bacon. 
Pleading Matho, borne abroad for air, 
With his fat paunch fills his new-fafhion’d chair. Dry den. 
Tv PAUNCH, v. a. To pierce or rip the belly; to 
exenterate ; to take out the paunch; to evifcerate.— 
Batter his ficull, or paunch him with a (lake. ShakeJpectre. 
Chiron attack’d Talthibius with fuch might, 
One pafs had paunch'd the huge hydropick knight. Garth. 
PAU'NCHWAY, f A fmall boat ufed in Bengal, 
being merely an attendant on the budgcrotv, or barge. 
The boats, or barges, chiefly in ufe at Bengal, are—the 
bur for commerce, and the budgerow and inoorpunkay 
for pleafure. As the two former were not noticed in 
their proper place, we fhal 1 fpeak of them here. 
The bur is ufed for inland navigation on the Ganges, 
and very lightly built of thin deals, without either keel 
or fide-timbers. The edges of the planks are faftened 
together with ftaples, and the feams are flopped up with 
mofs, and payed with greafe. Its largeft breadth is about 
one-third of the whole length from the ftern, where it 
runs up with a bend : it is very fharp forwards, and not 
very high above the water. Although they are of dif¬ 
ferent fizes, they are all of the fame fhape and conftruc- 
tion ; and fome of them can load fifty thoufand pounds 
weight of merchandife, and more. They are provided 
with a Angle maft, which has a large fquare fail ; and, as 
they take in a great quantity of water from the fides and 
bottoms, the crew' are compelled to employ fome perfons 
continually in baling. They are ufed for the carriage of 
cotton, and other bulky materials, the weight of which 
cannot bear any proportion to their fize. In common 
with all the other boats of the country, their bottoms are 
nearly fiat; and indeed, it would be impracticable on 
the Ganges to employ veflels formed for drawing any 
confiderable quantity of water, as the navigation is ren¬ 
dered extremely dangerous from the continual fliifting 
of the fands. 
Budgerow is the denomination given to travelling- 
boats, or pleafure-barges, ufed by the Europeans, as well 
as by the principal natives, in Bengal. On the outfide, 
they are conftruCted like the burs; but, within, they are 
much better adapted for convenience. The fpace from 
the middle to the ftern is occupied by one or two apart¬ 
ments, having windows on the tides, and from fix to feven 
feet high ; and fome of them fourteen feet wide : the 
lternmoft of them is the bed-room. Thefe budgerows 
are of various fizes ; from twenty-five to fixty feet in 
length, and longer. They are rowed by a n umber of men, 
from fix to twenty, with oars, w'hich are long poles, at 
the end of which a little oval board is nailed, in lieu of a 
leaf, and which do not ftrike the water crofs-ways, but 
obliquely backwards. They are fleered by a large paddle 
or oar, extending ten feet from the ftern; and forwards 
(lands a maft, upon which is hoifted a fquare fail, when 
they go before the wind; and they have likewife a top- 
mall with a fquare top-fail for fine weather. When they 
have a fide-wind, they drive down athwart the ftream, 
not having a keel or timber enough under water, as they 
are flat-bottomed, and draw fcarcely a foot and a half of 
water. The Englilh gentlemen in Bengal have much im¬ 
proved the budgerows by introducing a broad flat floor, 
fquare fterns, and broad bows. They are thus rendered 
much fafer, fail near, and keep their wind; and there is 
no danger attending their taking the ground. Befides, 
they are adapted for carrying more fail. The motion 
acquired by the oars of a large budgerow hardly exceeds 
eight miles a-day, at ordinary times. 
The paunchway moves more expeditioufly than the 
budgerow ; but it is nearly of the fame conftruClion, 
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