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his father died, was withdrawn by him upon a dilguft at 
his being difappointed of fucceeding him in the Hebrew 
profeffoi'fhip. Hi on-. Brit. Gen. Biog. 
PO'COCKE (Richard, D.D), a diftinguifhed traveller, 
and a prelate of the Irifh church, was a diftant relation 
of the preceding. His father was a clergyman of South¬ 
ampton, and head-mailer of the free-fchool there; and in 
that town Richard was born in 1704. He received his 
early education in his native place, whence he was re¬ 
moved to Corpus-Chrifti college in Oxford. In 1731 he 
took the degree of bachelor of laws, and in 1733 that of 
d oft or, at which time he pofTefTed the precentorfhip of 
Lifmore. During that and the following year he made a 
tour on the continent, probably as tutor to fome young 
man of rank. In 1736 he made a fecond tour, in which 
he took his way through Holland, Germany, Hungary, 
and Italy, to Leghorn. From this lall place he embarked 
in September 1737 for Egypt, in which country he 
purfued his travels till the following fpring. In March 
1738) he embarked at Damietta for Paleftine, which 
diltridl he diligently furveyed, and then took his courfe 
through Syria, Mefopotamia, Cyprus,” Candia, and Afia 
Minor, to Conftantinople. He returned by fea from 
Cephalenia to Medina, whence, through Italy, Germany, 
and Flanders, he proceeded homewards. He reached 
London in Auguft 1741, after an abfence of five years. 
The refults of his observations and refearches were given 
to the public under the title of “ Defcription of the Eaft 
and Some other Countries,” of which, the firft volume, 
entitled “ Obfervations on Egypt,” dedicated to Henry 
earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, appeared in 1743, 
folio; and the fecond, entitled “Obfervations on Pa¬ 
leftine, Syria, Mefopotamia, Cyprus, and Candia,” de¬ 
dicated to Philip earl of Chefterfield, in 1745, folio. 
Thefe publications were well received, and gave him a 
place among curious and learned travellers. His remarks 
chiefly relate to buildings, infcriptions,. and other re¬ 
mains of antiquity; but he has likewife many obfervations 
refpefling manners and cuftoms, and the products of 
nature and art in the countries which he vifited. The 
earl of Chefterfield, when appointed lord-lieutenant of 
Ireland in 1745, carried Dr. Pococke with him as one of 
his domeftic chaplains, and made him archdeacon of 
Dublin. In 1756, the duke of Devonfhire, then lord- 
lieutenant, promoted him to the bifhopric of Oflory. 
He was translated to Meath in x765, in which year he 
died of an apoplexy. Befides his foreign travels, he 
vifited various parts of the Britifh dominions, and made 
a tour in Scotland as far as Dingwall. He gave a de¬ 
fcription of a bafaltic rock in the harbour of Dunbar, re- 
fembling the Giant’s Caufeway, printed in the Phil. 
Tranf. vol. lii. and of fome antiquities found in Ireland, 
printed in the Archaeologia, vol. ii. Several manu- 
fcripts prefented by him to the Britifh Mufeum, relating to 
Ireland, are preferved in that repofitory. Anecd. ofBowyer. 
PO'COCKE (Sir George, K.B.), an eminent Britifh 
admiral, was the fon of the Rev. Tho. Pococke, M.A. 
F. R.S. chaplain to Greenwich-hofpital, born March 6, 
1706. At twelve years of age, he began his profeflion 
in the navy under his uncle fir George Byng, afterwards 
lord vifcount Torrington. In 1718, he Served on-board 
the fleet in that memorable vidtory off Sicily; and went 
through the different ranks of his profeflion with diftin¬ 
guifhed afliduity. His gallantry and prudence at Mar- 
tinico, when a commodore, in 1748, were highly fpoken 
of. In February 1754, he had a confiderable command 
in the Eaft Indies, where he continued till, in 1758, he 
commanded, as admiral in chief, the Britifh fleet there, 
and, with an inferior force, gained three fignal vidlories 
over the French; for which the thanks of the Eaft India 
Company were voted him in 1759. He was afterwards 
engaged in fome fevere but fuccefsful actions; and return¬ 
ed to England, with much honour, in 3760. He was ap¬ 
pointed, 1761, commander in chief of the naval force againft 
theHavannah, the taking of which, and thehardfhips his 
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fleet encountered in returning home, are the moft remark¬ 
able events of his life. See the article England, vol. iv. 
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Peace followed ; and our admiral retired to enjoy the 
fruit of his labours in domeftic fociety; but, in 1780, 
through a difguft at the appointment of fir Hugh Paliifer 
to the governorfhip of Green wich-hofpital, he relinquifh- 
ed the emolument of his half pay. He was refpedted by 
his enemies abroad, efteemed and beloved by his officers, 
and adored by the failors. His private virtues were ad¬ 
equate to his public renown. He was an excellent 
father, a benevolent brother, and an affectionate rela¬ 
tion to all his family. He died on the 3d of April, 1792, 
in the 87th year of hisAge; and his remains were interred 
in the family vault at Twickenham, near thole of his 
lady, by whom he left one fon, George Pococke, efq. 
F.R.S. and one daughter, who was married to the late 
earl Powlet, by whom file had the prefent earl and eight 
other children, and died in the year 1811. Gent. Mae;. 
1792. Debrett's Peerage, 1820. 
POCOCK'E’s I'SLAND, an ifland in the Eaftern feas. 
Lat.6.2. S. Ion. xx8. 12.E. 
POCOCKE POIN'T, a cape on the eaft coaft of New 
Zealand, formerly the north-weft point of the bay of 
Iflands : four miles weft of Cape Brett. 
POCOGNA'CA, a town of Italy, in the department 
of the Mincio : four miles north of Mantua. 
POCOHON'TAS, a townfhip of the United States, in 
Chefterfield county, Virginia, on the north fide of the 
Appomatox. 
POCOMO'KE, a river of the United States, in the 
fouth-eaft part of Maryland, which runs fouth-weft into 
the Chefapeak, forming a confiderable bay at its mouth. 
Length forty miles. 1 ^ 
POCO'NA, a town of Peru : fixty miles fouth of Cuzco. 
POC'ULENT, adj. [ poculum , Lat.] Fit for drink. 
—Some of thefe herbs which are not efculent, are not- 
W'ithftanding poculent ; as hops and broom. Bacon. 
POCULIFOR'MIS, adj. [ poculum , Lat. a cup.] In 
botany; hollow and cylindrical, with an hemifphericai 
bafe; the fides at the topftraight, not recurved. 
POCUM'MA, f. A name given by the people of 
Guinea to a fpecies of plant which they ufe as an aftrin- 
gent. Their manner of taking it is very Angular; for 
they put the leaves among the dough, and bake them into 
a mafs with the bread, and then eat the whole together in 
their food. Phil. Tranf. N° 32a. 
POCU'TIA, or Pokucia, a province of Poland, an¬ 
nexed to Auftria, and included in the kingdom of Galicia. 
POCZATEK', a town of Bohemia: fixty-lix miles 
fouth-eaft of Prague. Population x8oo. 
POD, f. [bode, boede, Dutch, a little houfe. Skinner .] 
The capfule of legumes; the cafe of feeds.—To raife 
tulips, fave the feeds which are ripe, when the pods begin 
to open at the top, which cut oft’ with the ftaiks from the 
root, and keep the pods upright, that the feed do not fall 
out. Mortimer. 
PODA'GRA, f. [from the Gr. tts?, foot, and ayp«, lei¬ 
sure, becaufe it generally firft attacks the feet.] The gout. 
See the article Pathology, vol. xix. p. 272. 
PODAGRA'RIA, f. in botany. See ZEgopodium. 
PODAG'RICAL, adj. Afflicted with the gout.—From 
a magnetical activity muft be made out, that a loadllone, 
held in the hand of one that is podagrical, doth, either 
cure or give great eafe in the gout. Brown's Vulg. Err .— 
Gouty; relating to the gout. 
PODA'LA a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic : 
eighteen miles weft of Ongole. 
PODALIR'IUS, a fon of Hifculapius and Epione. He 
was one of the pupils of the Centaur Chiron ; and he 
made himfelf under him fuch a mafter of medicine, that, 
during the Trojan war, the Greeks invited him to their 
camp, to flop a peftilence which had baffled the (kill of all 
their phyficians. Some however fuppofe, that he went to 
the Trojan war not in the capacity of a phyfician in the 
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