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graphers was fituated at this place, and not at the mouth 
of the Cettina. No remarkable veftiges of antiquity now 
exift on the fpot; yet it is evident, by the quantity of frag¬ 
ments of vafes, tiles, and fepulchral infcriptions now and 
then dug up, that this trail ofcoaftwas well inhabited in 
the Roman times. The principal caufe why the tracks 
of ancient habitations cannot be difcovered about Vrullia, 
is the lleepnefs of the hill above it, and the quantity of 
Hones brought down from thence by the waters. The 
mouth of the hollow of Vrullia is dreaded by feamen, on 
account of the hidden impetuous gulls of wind that blow 
from thence, and in a moment raife a kind of hurricane- 
in the channel between the Primorie and the ifland of 
Brazza, to the great danger of barks furprifed by it.” 
Fortis’s Travels in Dalmatia. 
PEGYP'SENT, a town of Maine, in the county of 
Cumberland, N. A. having 805 inhabitants. 
PEHL, a town of Auftria : ifix miles well of Wells. 
PE'I, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Se-tchuen, 
on the Kincha river: 720 miles fouth-fouth-well of Pe¬ 
king. Lat. 29. 50. N. Ion. 107. E. 
PE'I, a town of China, of the third rank, in Kiang- 
ii3n : forty miles north-north-well of Pefu. 
PEI-CHAN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Se-tchuen: twenty miles well of Tchong-king. 
PEI-HO', or the White River, a river of China, form¬ 
ed by feveral llreams, in the province of Pe-tche-li, and 
runs into the Gulf of Pe-tche-li. The mouth of the ri¬ 
ver is traverfed by a bar llretching north-north-eall and 
fouth-fouth-well, over which, at low water, the depth is 
not more than three or fourfeet, and in many places it is 
almoll dry. The tides rife and fall fix or feven feet at 
the mouth of the river: the time of high water at the 
full and change of the moon, is about half after three ; 
and five or fix miles outfide of the mouth of the river a 
large bamboo beam is placed upon the bar, together with 
lome of a fmaller fize, continued nearly in a ftraight line 
to the (liore, intended as marks to diredl velfels entering 
into the river. The town ofTa-coo lies within the Pei- 
lio, and is the firll place of any note in this part of the 
north-eall frontier of China. Yachts, or large covered 
barges, and boats of burden, calculated to pals over the 
Ihallowsof thePei-ho, may be obtained here, in order to 
enable perfons to proceed as far as this river leads, to¬ 
wards Pekin, the capital of the empire. 
The progrefs upon thePei-ho is neceffarily very flow, 
as the courfe of the river is remarkably ferpentine. The 
fields on each fide exhibit a high llate of cultivation, and 
are generally covered with the Holcus forghum, or the 
tailed of the vegetables producing efculent grain, com¬ 
monly called Barbadoes millet: it grows to ten or twelve 
feet high, and the lowetl calculation of its increafe is one 
h ur.dred-fold. The houfes in the villages near the river 
are conftru&ed of bricks ill-burnt, or baked in the fun, 
which, as well as the tiled roofs, are plaftered over with a 
muddy-coloured fubftance, unmixed with lime. Near 
foir.e of the towns and villages are pyramids about fifteen 
feet high, but of different dimenfions as to both length 
and thicknefs. They conlift of bags of fait, heaped 
together in that form, and covered merely with common 
matting. As foon as night comes on, the banks of this 
river are illuminated with variegated lights, from lan¬ 
terns wliofe tranfparent fides are made of different co¬ 
loured paper. The different numbers of lanterns hoilled 
on the malls’ head of the various velfels in the river de¬ 
note the rank of the paflengers they hold ; all which, to¬ 
gether with the lights from the cabins of the junks, re¬ 
flected from the water, produce a moving and parti-co¬ 
loured illumination. The fait, already mentioned, 
brought from Quan-tong and Fo-chien into the Pei-ho, 
is fulficient to load annually nearly 2000 velfels of 200 
tons burden each. 
At Tien-fing two rivers unite; one of which retains 
the name of Pei-ho; and the other is called Yun-leang-ho, 
or “ Grain-bearing River,” from the quantities of wheat 
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conveyed upon it from the province of Shen-fee, and fent 
up by the Pei-ho to the neighbourhood of Pekin. About 
thirty miles beyond Tien-fing, towards Pekin, the tide 
of the Pei-ho ceafes, and the progrefs of the yachts, See. is 
effefled by rowing with oars or towing with ropes; and 
their advance is very flow againll the current of the ri¬ 
ver. Large junks, to the number of 1000, each of which 
contains not lefs than fifty perfons, and therefore in the 
whole amount to 50,000, are paffing bet ween Tong-choo- 
foo and Tien-fing, and as many more of other kinds of 
craft; fo that upon a branch of a Angle river, the popu¬ 
lation of its moveable habitations amounts to 100,000 
perfons. Tong-choo-foo, where the water becomes 
too fhallow for the navigation of yachts of any bur¬ 
den, is ninety miles diflant from Tien-fing, and twelve 
miles from the city of Pekin. The mouth of the river 
Pei-ho, in the gulf of Pe-tche-li, is in lat. 39. N. 
PEI'CHELSTEIN, a town of the country of Tyrol : 
five miles fouth-fouth-wefl of Reutten. 
PEJEN'D, or Paja'na, the mofl confiderable lake of 
Finland, about eighty miles in length by fifteen in 
breadth, which gives fource to the river Kymmen. 
PE'JF.PSCOT, a town of Maflachufetts, in the pro¬ 
vince of Maine : thirty miles north of Portland. 
PEIL'LAC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Morbihan : fix miles eafl of Rochefort. 
PEIL'STEIN, a town of Auftria: four milesfouth of 
Aigen. 
PEI'NA, a town of Weflphalia, in the bifhopric of 
Hildefheim, fituated in a marfhy country on the Fufe, 
and formerly reckoned among the fortrefles. The great- 
eft part of the inhabitants here are Lutherans. In a cor¬ 
ner of the town llands the epifcopal palace, with a capu¬ 
chin convent; and near them is a fuburb called the Damm, 
which is chiefly inhabited by fliopkeepers and Jews. It 
is fifteen miles north-north-eaft of Hildefheim, and 
twenty-one eafl of Hanover. Lat. 52. 10. N. Ion. 10. 
18. E. 
PEINE FORTE ET DU'RE, or Pressing to Death. 
See Mute, vol. xvi. 
PEING-GHE'E, a town of Birmah, on the Irawaddy, 
from whence teak-wood is fent to Rangoon : twenty 
miles north-weft of Mayahoun. 
PEINS, or Pentz (Gregory), a German engraver of 
fome eminence, was born at Nuremberg in the year 1500. 
He firll ftudied in the fchool of Albert Durer, and pro¬ 
fited much by the inftruflions of that diftinguifhed maf- 
ter; but it was in Italy, and under Marc Antonio, that 
he finifhed his tafte, formed his flyle of engraving, and 
acquired that corre6lnefs of drawing which we regard 
with fo much admiration in his beft works. His plates 
are executed entirely with the graver, which he handled 
with much fkill, uniting with great precifion a degree of 
freedom which was unexampled. He appears to have 
worked on fome of the beft plates that pafs under the 
name of Marc Antonio. The far greater number of the 
engravings ofPeins are of final 1 dimenfions; wherefore 
he is ufually clafled among “ the little mailers;” but lie 
has produced fome few large prints; one efpecially of 
great merit, of An Army palling a Ditch and Scaling the 
Walls of a fortified City, after Julio Romano ; which, as 
Strutt has faid, is “an admirable fpecimen of the artiil’s 
fuperior abilities.” Peins died at the age of fifty-fix, but 
where his biographers have not mentioned. His mono¬ 
gram will be found on the preceding plate. 
The beft of the hiftorical works of Peins are, a pair of 
Either before Ahafuerus, and The Temptation of Job; 
another fmall pair of Judith in the Tent of Holofernes, 
and Judith appearing afterwards with his Head ; another 
pair, finely executed, of Solomon’s Idolatry, and The 
Judgment of Solomon. Peins appears to have poflefled 
fome judgment, at leaft fome humour, in pairing his 
prints; vvitnefs Sufannah folicited by the two Old Men, 
and Lot intoxicated by the two Young Women, his 
daughters. 
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