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wormwood; but, if we attend only to the quantity of 
fait in a given weight of allies, the allies of wormwood 
contain moll. Trifolium fbrinum alfo produces more 
alhes and fait than fern. See Potash. 
PEAR'L-EYED, udj. Having a fpeck in the eye, 
PEAR'L-GRASS, Pearl-plant,, or Pearl-wort. 
See Sagina. 
PEARL I'SLAND, afmall ifland in the gulf of Mex¬ 
ico, at the mouth of the MIffiflippL 
PEARL I'SLAND, a ftnall ifland in the Weft Indies. 
Lat. 14.. 53. N. Ion. 73. 13. W. 
PEARL I'SLAND, or King’s Island, a fmall ifland 
in the bay of Panama, Lat. 7,1a. N. 
PEARL I'SLANDS, a clufter of fmall iflands in the 
Atlantic, near the coaft of Nicaragua. Lat. 12. 35. N. 
Ion. 83. 50. W. 
PEARL KEY LAGOO'N, a bay on the Mofquito 
fliore. Lat. 11. is. N. Ion. 83.12. W. 
PEARL KE'YS, iflets or rocks in the Spanilh main, 
on the Mofquito fliore. Lat. 12. 26. N. Ion. 82. 45. W. 
PEAR'L RIV'ER, a river of America, which rifes in 
the Chaftaw country, in the weft part of the Miffiflippi- 
territory, and, purfuing a foutherly courfe to the gulf of 
Mexico, is navigable upwards of 150 miles. Its princi¬ 
pal mouths are near the entrance at the ealt end of the 
iRegulets, through which is the paflage to lake Pont- 
chartrain; it has feven feet at its entrance, and deep 
water afterwards. 1111769 there were fome fettlements 
on this river, where were raifed tabacco, indigo, cotton, 
rice, Indian corn, and all forts of vegetables. The land 
produces a variety of timber, fit for pipe and hogfliead 
ftaves, mads, yards, and all kinds of planks for ftrip- 
building. This is the largeft river between Mifliflippi and 
Mobile. Before it enters the Regulets or Rigolets, it 
divides into federal channels. 
PEARL RIV'ER, a river of Chiampa, which runs into 
the Chinefe fea in lat. 10. 54. N. Ion. 107. 33. E. 
PEARL ROC'KS, a clufter of low and dangerous 
rocks in the north Pacific Ocean 5 near the fouth extre¬ 
mity of Calvert’s Ifland,. Lat. 51. 54. N. Ion. 231. 59. E. 
PEARL-SPAR'. See Spatum cubicum. 
PEAR'L-STONE,/. (Lave vitreufe perlee, Haiti/.) This 
mineral is regarded by many mineralogills as a volcanic 
production 5 it is frequently intermixed with Obfldian, 
and hence is clafled by them as a variety of the latter mi¬ 
neral. It occurs in bafaltic and porphyritic rocks, in 
large and fotnewhat angular concretions, which are com- 
poled of fmaller roundilh concretions and thofe of others 
ftill fmaller. The furface of the concretions is fmooth, 
fhining, and pearly. The colour is grey, pafling into 
pearl-grey and greyifli-black. It is tranflucent on the 
edges 5 it fcarcely fcratches glafs, is eafily frangible, and 
is fufible with intumefcence before the blow-pipe, into a 
white fpongy glafs. This mineral has been found near 
Sandy Brae, in Ireland, in the ifland of Iceland, and in 
Mexico ; it was firft difcovered in Hungary, where it 
occurs in large beds. It is claffed by Mr. jamefon and 
Werner with obfldian, pitch-ftone, and pumice, as form¬ 
ing a member of the pitch-ftone family. According to 
Klaproth, it is competed of 
75.25 Silex. _ 
12. Alumine. 
1.6 Oxydofiron. 
4.5 Potafli. 
2.5 Lime. 
2.j Water. 
98.35 
PEAR'LED, aelj. Adorned or fet with pearls; made 
of pearls 1 
You goodly nymphs 
That, when you lift, in pearled boats of fhell 
Glide on the dancing wave. P. Fletcher's Fife, Ed. 
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The water-nymphs 
Held up their pearled wrifts, and took her in, 
Bearing her ftraight to aged Nereus’ hall. Milton's Comics. 
Refembling pearls.—Her weeping eyes in pearled dew 
flie fteeps. P. Fletcher. 
PEAR'LY, adj. Abounding with pearls; containing 
pearls; 
Some in their pearly (hells at eafe, attend 
Moift nutriment. Milton's P. L. 
Refembling pearls.—Another was inverted with a pearly 
(hell, having the futures finely difplayed upon its furface. 
Woodward. 
For what the day devours, the nightly dew 
Shall to the morn in pearly drops renew. Dryden. 
PEA'RMAIN, f. [parmain , French.] An apple.— 
Pearmain is an excellent and well-known fruit. Mor¬ 
timer. 
The pearmain , which to France long ere to us was known; 
Which careful fruiterers now have denizen’d our own. 
Drayton . 
PEARN’S POI'NT, a cape on the weft coaft of the 
ifland of Antigua. 
PE'ARSON (John), a very learned prelate of the 
church of England, was the fon of a clergyman, re6tor 
of Creake and Snoring, in Norfolk, at one of which places 
he was born in the year 1612-13. In the eleventh year 
of his age he was fent to Eton Ichool, where he laid an 
excellent foundation of grammar-learning; and in the 
year 1631, or 1632, he was elected from that feminary to 
King’s College, Cambridge. Here he was admitted to 
the degree of B. A. in 1635 ; after which he was chofen 
a fellow of his college. In 1639, he proceeded M.A. and 
not long afterwards refigned his fellowfliip, but continued 
to refide in college as a fellow-commoner. Having en¬ 
tered into holy orders during the lame year, bifliop Da- 
venant collated him to a prebend in the church of Sarum; 
and, in 1640, he was appointed chaplain to the lord-keep¬ 
er Finch, who is Paid to have prefented him to a living 
in Suffolk. When the civil war commenced between 
Charles I. and the parliament, Mr. Pearfon was made 
chaplain to George lord Goring, and attended him when 
he went in the king’s fervice into the weft of England. 
About the year 1643, he obtained the living of St. Cle¬ 
ment’s Eaftcheap, in London. Here he preached a feries 
of fermons, which he afterwards call into a different form, 
and publiflied under the title of “ An Expofition on- the 
Creed, &c.” 1659, 4to. This learned and well-known 
performance has juftly been pronounced an accompliflied 
work for ftyle and method, and free from thofe defects 
which are too generally found in theological fyftems. It 
was afterwards reprinted, with improvements, in folio; 
and has been held in fuch eftimation, that twelve or thir¬ 
teen imprefllons of it have been called for. Before the 
appearance of this work, in the year 1657, he and Mr. 
Peter (afterwards bilhop) Gunning held a difpute with 
two papifts, on the fubjeft of fchifm; of which a falfe 
account was publiflied at Paris, in 1658, which was dif- 
claimed by both the proteftant difputants, and even by 
one of their.popifli opponents. 
Soon after the reiteration, preferments and honours 
flowed in rapidly upon our author. Before the clofe of 
the year 1660, he was collated, by Juxon bifliop of Lon¬ 
don, to the reftory of St. Chriftopher’s, in that city; 
created D. D. at Cambridge, by a mandamus from the 
king; in flailed a prebend in the cathedral of Ely; nomi¬ 
nated archdeacon of Surrey ; and appointed mailer of 
Jefus-college, in Cambridge. In the year 1661, he was 
one of the affiftant managers on the fide of the Eftablilh- 
ment at the Savoy conference; on which occafion he ac¬ 
quitted himfelf in a manner that was reputable to his 
learning and abilities, as Mr. Baxter did him the juftice 
to acknowledge, “ Dr. Pearfon,” fays he, “ was their 
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