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ftiore, efpecially at the Lizard Point, where there are but 
few, if any, outworks to refill it; how high the waves 
come forward, ftorming on the back of one another, 
particularly when the wind blows off-fea; one would 
wonder, that even the ftrongeft rocks themfelves fhould 
be able to refill and repel them. And yet, as if all this 
were not enough, nature has provided another ftrong 
fence ; and that is, that thefe vafl rocks are, in a man¬ 
ner, cemented together by the folid and weighty ore of 
tin and copper, efpecially the latter, with which the 
Hones may be faid to be foldered together, left the force 
of the fea fhould feparate and disjoint them, and, break¬ 
ing in upon thefe fortifications of the ifland, deftroy its 
chief fecurity. It is very probable that all thefe ifles 
were once part of the main land ; but the fea, violently 
beating againft it, carried off the fofter parts, and left 
the harder. This procefs of nature and time may be feen 
in miniature at the weftern point of the Ifle of Wight, 
and many other expofed places. Undoubtedly, had not 
fuch hard bodies as thefe rocks been there, the fea would 
have made ftill greater havock, and carried away much 
more of the land. This is certain, that there is'a more 
than ordinary quantity of tin, copper, and lead alfo, 
fixed by the great Author of Nature in thefe very remote 
angles, fo that the ore is found upon the very furface of 
the rocks a good way into the fea, and does not only lie, 
as it were, upon or between the ftones among the earth; 
which in that cafe might be wafhed from it by the fea, 
but is even blended or mixed in with the ftones them¬ 
felves, fo that the ftones inuft be fplit into pieces to come 
at it. By this mixture the rocks are made exceedingly 
weighty and folid, and thereby ftill the more qualified to 
repel the force of the fea. See farther under the articles 
Marazion, vol. xiv. p. 333. and Scilly; alfo Borlafe’s 
and Polwhele’s Antiquities of Cornwall; Beauties of 
England and Wales, vol. ii. and Wilkes’s Britifli Direc¬ 
tory, vol. iv. 
PENZEN'SKOE, a government of Ruflia, bounded on 
the north by Nizegorodfkoi, on the eall by Simberlkoe, 
on the fouth by Saratovlkoe, and on the weft by Tambov- 
Ikoe; about 172 miles eall to weft, and from forty to fixty 
north to fouth. Penza is the capital. Lat. 52. 40. to 54. 
36. N. Ion. 42. to 47. E. 
PENZINSKA'IA, a gulf of Rufiia, at the north part 
of the Penzinfkoe Sea. Lat. 61. to 62. N. Ion. 162. 
14. E. 
PENZIN'SKOE SE'A, a large bay of the North Pacific 
Ocean, between Rufiia and Kamtfchatka, fituated to the 
north-eaft of the fea of Ochotlk; about 320 miles in 
length, and from 120 to 160 broad. Lat. 58. to 62. N. 
Ion. 152. to 161. E. 
PENZ'LEIN, a town of the duchy of Mecklenburg: 
thirty-feven miles fouth-eaft of Gultrovv, and fifty-three 
eaft of Stettin. 
PE'ON, J. In India a foot-foldier : one employed alfo 
as a fervant or attendant. The original word is faid to 
be pcadah. See the article Hindcostan, vol. x. p. 177. 
and the correfponding Plate.—Little boys, or peunes, 
who, for four-pice a day, are ready to run, go errands, 
or the like. Sir T. Herbert's Travels. 
PE'ONY, J'. A flower. See Pteonia. —A phyfician 
had often tried the peony- root unleafonably gathered 
without fuccefs; but, having gathered it when the de- 
creafing Moon pafles under Aries, and tied the flit root 
about the necks of his patients, he had freed more than 
one from epileptical fits. Boyle. 
PE'OPLE, f. [peuple, Fr. populus, Lat.] A nation ; 
thofe who compole a community. In thisfenfe we have 
peoples. —Prophefy again before many peoples and nations 
and tongues. Rcv.x. 11. —Ants are a people not ftrong, 
yet they prepare their meat in fummer. Prov. xxx. 25. 
What is the city but the people? 
True, the people are the city. Shahefpeare's Coriol. 
PEP 
The vulgar.—The knowing artift may judge better than 
the people. Waller. 
I muft like beafts or common people die, 
Unlefs you write my elegy. Cowley. 
The commonalty 5 not the princes or nobles: 
Myfelf (hall mount the roftrum in his favour. 
And ft rive to gain his pardon from the people. Adrlifon. 
Perfons of a particular clafs. —If a man temper his adlions 
to content every combination of people, the mufic will be 
the fuller. Bacon. —A fmall red flower in the ftubble- 
fields country people call the wincopipe. Bacon. —Men, 
or perfons in general. In this fenfe, the word people is 
ufed indefinitely, like on in French.—The frogs petition¬ 
ing for a king, bids people have a care of ftruggling with 
heaven. L'EJlrange.—People were tempted to lend by 
great premiums and large intereft. Swift's Mifcell .— 
Watery liquor will keep an animal from ftarving by dilu¬ 
ting the fluids: for people have lived twenty-four days 
upon nothing but water. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 
To PE'OPLE, v. a. Toftock with inhabitants. Suppofe 
that Brute, or whofoever elfe that firft peopled this ifland, 
had arrived upon Thames, and called the ifland after his 
name Britannia. Raleigh’s Hijl. 
He would not be alone, who all things can ; 
But peopled heaven with angels, earth with man. Dryden. 
PE'OPLISH, adj. Vulgar. Not in life.—Rudeneffe, 
and peplijhe appetite. Chaucer's Tv. and Crejf. 
PE'OR, a famous mountain beyond Jordan, which 
Eufebius places between Helhbon and Livias. The 
mountains Nebo, Pifgah, and Peor, were near one ano¬ 
ther, and probably made but the fame chain of moun¬ 
tains. It is very likely that Peor took its name from 
fome deity of the fame name, which was worfliipped 
there; for Peor, Phegor, or Baal-peor, was known in 
this country. See Numb. xxv. 3. Deut. iv. 3. Pfal. cv. 28. 
PE'OR, was a city of the tribe of Judah, which is not 
read in the Hebrew, nor in the Vulgate, but only in the 
Greek of the Septuagint (Jolh. xv. 60.). Eufebius fays 
it was near Bethlehem; and Jerome adds, that in his time 
it was called Paora. 
PEO'RIA, a townlhip of St. Clair, in the Illinois ter¬ 
ritory, with 93 inhabitants. 
PE'ORY, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad : 
thirty-five miles north-north-weft of Darore. 
PEPARE'THOS, in ancient geography, a fmall ifland 
of the ZEgean Sea, on the coaft of Macedonia, about twen¬ 
ty miles in circumference. It abounded in olives, and 
its wines have always been reckoned excellent. They 
were not, however, palatable before they were feven 
years old . Pliny. 
PEPAS'MUS, J'. [from the Gr. nt'Kctwu, to mature.] 
Maturation of morbid humours. 
PEPAS'TIC, or Pep'tic, f . [irswesrt »<>;, or mmixos , 
Gr. formed from wswaneti/, to digeft, or ripen.] A kind 
of medicament of the confiftence of a plafter, proper to 
bring vitious and corrupt humours to a head, and dif- 
pofe them for fuppuration.—Butter, roots of mallows, of 
fleurs-de-lys, onions, and leaves of oxylapathum, are ef- 
teemed good pepaftics, or maturatives. Chambers. —The 
word is alfo ui’ed for fuch medicines as promote the di- 
geftion of food in the ftomach; properly peptics. 
PEPAS'TIC, adj. Suited to digeft crudities in the 
ftomach. 
PEPECHAISSIN'AGAN, a river of Canada, which 
runs into the St. Lawrence in lat. 48. 26. N. Ion. 68. 55. W. 
PEP'ERAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Gurry Mun- 
della: ten miles fouth of Gurra. 
PEP'ERAH, a fort of Hindooftan, in Bahar: forty- 
eight miles eaft of Durbungah. Lat. 26. 8. N. Ion. 86. 
58. E. 
PEPERAL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
thirty miles north of Durbungah. 
PEPERI'AH, 
