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His “ Ar£lic Zoology,” in 2 vols. 4to. containing qua¬ 
drupeds and birds, appeared in 1785. There was prefixed 
to it a copious Introduction, which is, perhaps, the molt 
interefting and original of all his writings. It is a kind 
of furvey of all the coafts of the arctic regions, beginning 
from the Straits of Dover, and'proceeding to the remo- 
tefl north, on the eaft and welt; and filled with a great 
variety of geographical, hiftorical, and phyfical, fads, 
alfording a feries of the molt animated pictures. A Sup¬ 
plement to this work was given in 1787. “ A Journey 
from Chelter to London,” 4to. 1782, and an account of 
the antiquities of the capital irfelf, entitled “London,” 
4to. 1790, were agreeable additions to his publications 
of this clafs. The latter, in particular, was popular, and 
reached a third edition. Several fmaller pieces of the po¬ 
litical and mifcellaneous kind, filled up the intervals of 
liis greater works, and proved the continued adivity of 
his mind. 
Thus far Mr. Pennant has himfelf recorded the hiftory 
of his literary life, in a work printed in 1793, together 
with fome mifcellaneous traffs. He had at this time 
taken a formal leave of the public, and had alluded to 
Gil Bias’s archbifhop of Granada, as a memento not to 
employ his pen till the defeCl of its powers fliould become 
manifelf to his readers. But the habit of authorfhip was 
too (trong to permit him to adhere to his refolution. In 
1796 he pubiilhed “ The Hiftory of the Parifties of 
Whiteford and Holywell,” 4to. the firft of thefe was his 
native parilh ; and he took occafion to give many particu¬ 
lars of his family-hiftory, with a degree of fenile garrulity, 
but enlivened by his ufual vivacity. The natural hiftory 
of the parifties is curious and inftruClive. I11 his literary 
life he had mentioned a great rhafs of manufcript which 
he kept by him under the title of “ Outlines of the 
Globe,” being compilations of geographical and other 
matter, in the manner of the introduCIion to Arflic 
Zoology above ment ioned, and which was a part of them. 
From thefe he publitiled in 1798 two quarto volumes, en¬ 
titled, “ A View in Hindooftan,” which were well re¬ 
ceived by the public. He died in the courfe of that year, 
at the age of 72. Befides the works above enumerated, 
he wrote fome fmaller pieces; and was a promoter of the 
publications of other men of fcience, particularly of Mr. 
Lightfoot’s Flora Scotica. To the lift of his literary ho- 
ncurs are to be added his eledlion into the Royal Aca¬ 
demy of Stockholm, and the American Philofophical So¬ 
ciety of Philadelphia, befides feveral minor focieties. 
He had married a fecond wife in 1776, the filler of his 
neighbour, fir Roger Moftyn ; and he left a family by 
both marriages. 
Mr. Pennant poffeffed a weil-compa£led frame of body, 
an open and intelligent afpedl, and a cheerfulnefs and vi¬ 
vacity of difpofition, with gentlemanlike manners, which 
rendered him highly agreeable in fociety. He was exem¬ 
plary in the relations of domeftic life, zealoufly attached 
to the interefts of his country, both local and general, and 
kindly attentive to the wants of his poor neighbours. As 
an author, he was too rapid and various to be perfeflly 
correfl either in matter or ftyle ; but he always meant 
honeftly, and was ready to rectify miftakes. In the de¬ 
partment of natural hiftory, in which he Hands higheft, 
he is clear and judicious in his fpecies of arrangement, 
concife, energetic, and exa£t in his defcriptions. He is 
regarded both by native and foreign naturalifts as very 
reftpeflable authority. Pennant's Literary Life, and Hif¬ 
tory of Whiteford and Holywell. Gen. Bing. 
PENNAN'TIA, f. [fo named by Forfter in honour of 
the fubjeft of the preceding article.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs polygamia, order dioecia ; or ratherclafs pen- 
tandria, order monogynia; natural order uncertain ; per¬ 
haps akin to the urticse of Juftieu. Generic characters— 
Calyx : none, unlefs the corolla be taken forfuch. Co¬ 
rolla: petals five, equal, lanceolate, acute, concave, 
widely Ipreading. Stamina : filaments five, capillary, the 
length of the petals; antherte oblong, incumbent. Pif- 
tillum: germen fuperior, obtufely triangular; ftyle none; 
ftigma flat, peltate, obfcurely three-lobed. Pericarpium : 
capfule triangular, of two cells. Seeds folitary; fome- 
what triangular. Some flowers, on a feparate plant, have 
the filaments twice as long as in the above, with ovate 
antherae, but no pillil.— Efential Charafler. Calyx none ; 
petals five, equal; ftyle none ; capfule of tw'o cells ; feeds 
folitary. 
Pennantia corymbofa, a fingle fpecies; native of New 
Zealand. It is a tree or fhrub, with round leafy brandies, 
dotted, and fomewdiat downy, when young. Leaves al¬ 
ternate, ftalked, two inches or rather more in length, 
obovate ; either quite entire, or with two or three broad 
blunt (hallow teeth, or fmall lobes; furniftied with a 
midrib, and many tranfverfe interbranching veins ; dark 
green above, nearly fmooth, except the rib, which is on 
both fides minutely hairy; pale and fmooth beneath. 
Footftalks not half an inch long, channelled, hairy. 
Flowers about the fize of Lauruftinus; as far as can be 
judged of them in a dry ftate, they feem to be pale green 
oryellowifli wdiite. The whole bears a general refem- 
blance to fome kind of Viburnum, but the abfence of a 
calyx is a ftriking difference. 
Such is Foriter’s original fpecimen. The younger 
Linnaeus, however, obtained in England, if we miftake 
not, a fpecimen under the name of Pennantia, which is 
a very different thing. The leaves are ovate, four inches 
long, green on both fides, undivided and entire. 
Branches and footftaik fmooth, with a folitary ftalked 
gland at a little diftance above each of the latter, and no 
llipules. Flowers numerous, in a terminal compound 
fmooth duller; their ftyle as long as the corolla, their 
ftamens longer; and, what is mod remarkable, each flower 
has a calyx, deeply divided into five ovate fringed feg- 
ments, and rather elongated at its bafe. This plant 
therefore is unqueftionably altogether different from For- 
fter’s Pennantia ; it may be an Ehretia, but we know no¬ 
thing of the fruit, nor is it to our prefent purpofe to in-, 
veftigate this queftion. 
PENNAQUID'. See Pemaouid. 
PENNAR', a river of Hindooftan, which rifes in My- 
fore, erodes the circar of Cuddapa and the Carnatic, and 
runs into the bay of Bengal twelve miles eaft of Nellore, 
in lat. 14. 26. N. Ion. 80. 13. E. This is the firft conlider- 
able river to the north of Madras. It rifes nearly in mid¬ 
way between the two feas, near Chinna Balaburan, or 
about twenty-five miles north of Bangalore. It has a 
northern courfe as high as lat. 15. from whence it runs 
eafterly till it reaches the fea. It is a confiderable river, 
being three hundred yards wide feventy miles from the 
fea, confined by mount:,ins on each fide. On the fouth- 
ern part (lands the ltrong fortrefs of Gandicotta ; which 
fee, vol. viii. 
PENNA'RE POI'NT, a cape in the Englifh Channel, 
on the fouth coaft of Cornwall: fix miles weft-fouth-weft 
of Dedman’s Point. Lat. 50. 12. N. Ion. 4. 46. W. 
PEN'NARTH BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coaft of 
Wales, in the Severn, at the mouth of the Trave, below 
Cardiff, to which it is a harbour. A point of land,called 
Pennartk Point, bounds it on the fouth. 
PEN'NAS (Las), a town of Peru, in the diocefe of La 
Paz: feventy miles north of Potofi. 
PEN'NATF.D, adj. [pennatus, Lat.] Winged.—- Pen- 
nated, amongft botanifts, are thofe leaves of plants as grow 
diredlly one againft another on the fame rib or ftalk ; as 
thofe of afh and walnut-tree. Quincy. 
PENNAT'ULA, f. [dim. of penna, Lat. a quill-fea¬ 
ther, from the appearance of fome of the fpecies.] The 
Sea Pen; in helminthology, a genus of vermes zoophy- 
ta, or plant-like worms, confiding of eighteen fpecies. 
Generic characters—Animal not affixed, of various fhapes, 
fupported by a bony part within, naked at the bafe, the 
upper part with generally lateral ramifications, furniftied 
with rows of tubular denticles, producing radiate polypes 
from each tube. 
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