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or other look with good judgement into thefe their de¬ 
ceitful pedleries. Milton Of Ref. in Eng. —The employ¬ 
ment of felling petty articles.—My next lover was Fun- 
.goh, the fon of a (lock-jobber: I durft not difmifs him; 
and might perhaps have been doomed for ever to the 
groffnefs of pedlary , and jargon of ufury, had not a 
fraud been difcovered in the fettlement. Johnfon's Ram¬ 
bler, No. 119. 
PED'MAN, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Guntoor: ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Guntoor. 
PEDN BOAR POI'NT, a cape on the fouth coaft of 
England, and county of Cornwall: fix miles fouth-ealt 
of Lizard Point. Eat. 50. 6. N. Ion. 5. 8. W. 
PEDOBAP'TISM. See Pjedo-baptism, vol. xviii. 
•PEDOM'ANCY, f. [from the Gr. otj, a foot, and 
p.a.vana, magic.] Divination by the lines on the foies of 
the feet. 
PEDOM'ETER, f. [from ws?, foot, and mea- 
fure.] A mechanical inftrument, In the form of a watch, 
confifting of various wheels* with teeth catching in one 
another, all difpofed in the fame plane ; which, by means 
of a chain or firing, fattened to a man’s foot, or to the 
wheel of a chariot, advance a notch each ftep, or each re¬ 
volution of the wheel; fo that, the number being marked 
on the edge of each wheel, one may number the paces, 
or meafure exactly the diltance from one place to ano¬ 
ther. 
An inftrument of this kind has been invented and 
improved by Mr. Ralph Gout, of Bunhill Row. The pe¬ 
dometers of Mr. Gout have an advantage hitherto un¬ 
known, viz. the hour being attached to them, if required, 
which makes this inftrument doubly ufeful. Thus, on 
the fame dial is exhibited, at one view, time and diftance 
by means of different hands. Their internal conftruction 
is fo very fimple, as not to endanger their being put out 
of order; and, if required to be cleaned, a perfon of the 
fmalleft capacity may do it, the wheels being all marked 
for that purpofe. 
The patentee has been induced to make various trials 
with his pedometers in public, one in the right, and one 
in the left, pocket, in order to eftablith more efteftually 
their high ftate of perfection, not only in point of accu¬ 
racy of the machinery, but to fhow the nicety of man’s 
walking. The fame pedometer will, by a proper appli¬ 
cation to the faddle, afeertain every pace a horfe takes, 
either in walk, trot, or gallop, and may be made to flop 
performance in a fecond, lhould the horfe, in the courfe 
of meafuring, go from one pace to another. In fhort, 
we do not feel the lead difficulty in recommending this 
invention, as the beft of the kind ever offered to the 
public. 
Pedometer is fometimes alfo ufed for the common 
furveying-wheel, an inftrument chiefly ufed in meafu- 
riwg lands and roads ; popularly called the way-wifer. 
See Perameulator, and the article Surveying. , 
PE'DRA, a river of Africa, in the kingdom of Adel, 
which runs into the Arabian Sea in lat. n. 25. N. 
PE'DRA BRAN'CA, a large white rock in the Chi- 
nefe fea. Lat. 22. 19. N. Ion. 114. 57. E. 
PE'DRA DA GA'LE, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, 
near the coaft of Africa. Lat. 21.48. N. 
PE'DRA DA SUREI'RA, a rock or fmall ifland in 
the Atlantic, near the coaft of Portugal, at the mouth of 
the Gopelha : four miles fouth of the bay of Oporto. 
Laf. 41.6. N. Ion. 8.23. W. 
PEDRA'QA, a town of South America, in the go¬ 
vernment of Caraccas: twenty-five miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Varinas. 
PEDRAGA'O,. a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Eftramadura : thirty miles fouth-eaft of Coimbra. 
PEDRAPALO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
Carnatic : twenty miles fouth of Wandiwafli. 
PE'DRAS, a river on the north-weft fide of Punta 
des Padras, at the fouthern extremity of Amazon-river. 
PEDRA'ZA, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, with a 
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caftle, in which Francis the dauphin of France, and his 
brother Henry, children to Francis I. were confined for 
four,years. It was the birth-place of the emperor Tra¬ 
jan : twenty-one miles north-eaft of Segovia. 
PED'RERO. See Pederero. 
PE'DRICK I'SLAND, a townfhip of Plymouth coun¬ 
ty, in Maffachufetts, having feven perfons. 
PE'DRO, a town on the north-weft coaft of the ifland 
of Ternate. Lat. o. 50. N. Ion. 127. 10. E. 
PE'DRO, a fmall ifland in the Indian Sea, near the 
weft coaft of Madagafcar. Lat. 14. 50. S. Ion.'47. 48. E. 
PE'DRO BA'Y (Great), a bay on the fouth coaft of 
Jamaica. Lat. 17. 53. N. Ion. 77.41. W.—Eaft of it lies 
Little Pedro Point. 
PE'DRO BLUFF', a cape on the fouth coaft of Ja¬ 
maica. Lat. 17. 52. N. Ion. 77. 39. W. 
PE'DRO MU'NOZ, a town of Spain, in New Caftile : 
forty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Toledo. 
PE'DRO POI'NT, a cape on the north coaft of Ja¬ 
maica. 'Lat. 18. 28. N. Ion. 78. 12. W. 
PE'DRO SHO'ALS, or Beroras, rocks in the Spanifti 
main : thirty miles fouth of Jamaica. Lat. 17. 18. N. Ion. 
77. to 78. 20. W. 
PE'DRO (Saint), a river of Africa, on the Ivory coaft, 
which runs into the Atlantic. Lat. 4. 50. N. Ion. 6. 50. 
W.—Alfo, a town of South America, in the province of 
Carthagena : fifty miles fouth of Mompox.—A town of 
South America, in the province of Venezuela, on the 
fouth coaft of lake Maracaybo: 100 miles fouth of Ma- 
racaybo.—A town of Brafil, in the government of Para, 
on the river Amazons : 440 miles weft of Port Rio Negro. 
—A town of South America, in the province of Moxes, 
on the Mamora : fifty miles fouth of Trinidad.—A town 
of South America, in the audience of Quito : twenty 
miles north-weft of St. Jofef de Huales.—A town of 
Mexico, in the province of Mechoacan : fifteen miles 
north of St. Luis de Potofi.—A fmall ifland in the Pacific 
Ocean, near the coaft of Terra Firma. Lat. 4. 2. N.—A 
fea-port of Mexico, in the province of Guaxaca: feven- 
ty-five miles fouth of Guaxaca. Lat. 16. N. Ion. 99. 1. 
W.—One of the Marquefas iflands, called by the natives 
Onatcya, about three leagues in circuit. Lat. 9. 55. S. 
Ion. 138. 55. E.—A town of the bifhopric ofTruxillo, 
and jurifdi< 5 tion of Sana, fituated in a fertile foil, near 
the coaft of the Pacific ocean : fifty miles north of Trux- 
illo. Lat. 7. 26. S. —A town of Eaft Florida : forty-four 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of St. Mark.—A fmall ifland near 
the coaft of Spain, fituated fouth-eaft of the city of Cadiz, 
from which it is feparated by a narrow ftrait, called “ St. 
Pedro’s Channel.” — A town of the ifland of Cuba: 
thirty-one miles fouth-weft of Bayamo.—A town of 
South America, in the province of Cordova : ninety-fix 
miles north of Cordova.—A town of New Navarre: 180 
miles w'eft of Cafa Grande.—A town of Mexico, in the 
province of Honduras: fifteen miles u'eft-north-weft of 
Naco.— Alfo, a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the coaft of 
New Albion, between Point Fermin and Point Lafuen. 
PE'DRO NOLAS'CO (St.), a town of Brafil on the 
Urubui: feventy miles north-north-eaft of Fort Rio 
Negro. 
PE'DRO NO'VO (St.), a town of Brafil, on a river 
which runs into the bay of All Saints : fifty miles north- 
Veft of St. Salvador. 
PE'DRO E PA'BLO (St.), a river of Mexico, which 
rifes in Tabafco, and runs into the bay of Campeachy in 
lat. 18.20.N. Ion. 93. 2 6. W.—Alfo, a river of Mexico, 
which rifes near Zacatlan, in the province of Tiafcala, 
and runs into the gulf of Mexico in lat. 10. 52. N. Ion. 
93. 26. W. 
PE'DRO DE SUL' (St.), a town of Portugal, in the 
province of Beira : nine miles north-weft of Vifeu. 
PE'DRO DE TABER'NA (St.), a town of Spain, in 
Arragon : twelve miles north of Aftifa. 
PEDRO'AS (Os), a town of Portugal in Alentejo: 
nine miles fouth-weft of Moura. 
PEDRO'AS 
