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REPORT OF BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 
Pit; river, Modoc, Lassen, and Shasta 
counties, Cal. (Not Pitt.) 
Pitman; R. R. station, Gloucester coun¬ 
ty, N. J. (Not Pitman Grove.) 
Pitmegea; river, east of Cape Lisburne, 
N. Alaska. (Not Pet-meg-e’a nor Pit- 
migea.) 
Pitt; see Kruzof. 
Pittsburg; city in Pennsylvania. (Not 
Pittsburgh.) 
Note.— The city was chartered in 1816, its 
name beingspelled withoutthe/i,and itsofficial 
form is still Pittsburg. The li appears to have 
been added by the Post Office Department, and 
through that action local usage appears to 
have become divided. While the majority of 
local newspapers print it Pittsburg as here 
given, certain others use the final h. 
Pittsgrove; town and township, Salem 
county, N. J. (Not Pitt’s Grove.) 
Piute; peak and town, Kern county, 
Cal. (Not Pah-ute, Pahute, nor Pai- 
ute.) 
Plaat Clove; village in Greene county, 
N. Y. (Not Platt Clove.) . 
Planter kill; Plaaterskill; see Plattekill. 
Plaingrove; town and township, Law¬ 
rence county, Pa. (Not Plain Grove.) 
Plains; city, Meade county, Kans. (Not 
West Plains.) 
Plantain; mountain and pond, Mount 
Washington town, Berkshire county, 
Mass. (Not Plantin.) 
Plata; large river, South America. (Not 
Plate nor Rio de la Plata.) 
Plata; see La Plata. 
Platt; see La Platte. 
Platt Clove; see Plaat Clove. 
Platte Junction; see Wol hurst. 
Plattekill; clove and creek, Ulster 
and Greene counties, N. Y. (Not 
Plaaterkill.) 
Plattekill; town, Ulster county, N. Y. 
(Not Plaaterskill.) 
Plattford; precinct, Sarpy county, Nebr. 
(Not Platford.) 
Plattville; township, Mills county, Iowa. 
(Not Plattsville.) 
Pleasant Mound; township, Blue Earth 
county, Minn. (Not Pleasant Mounds.) 
Pleasantdale; R. R. station, Seward 
county, Nebr. (Not Pleasant Dale.) 
Pleasanton; see Loop. 
Pleito; creek, Kern county, Cal. (Not 
Plata, Plato, nor Pieto.) 
Pluckemin; town, Somerset county, N. J. 
(Not Pluckamin.) 
Plum; town and township, Venango 
county, Pa. (Not Plummer.) 
Plum; creek, Fall River county, S. Dak. 
(Not Plumb.) 
Plumb; see Prairie. 
Pnum Penh.; capital of Cambodia. (Not 
Pnom-peigne, Pnompeng, nor Pnom¬ 
penh. ) 
Poadpis; see Polpis. 
Pocasset; harbor, Buzzards bay, Mass. 
(Not Pocassett.) 
Pocatoes; Poccaloes; see Pucketa. 
Pocomoke; river, sound, and town, 
Worcester county, Md. (Not Poko- 
moke.) 
Pocosin; Pocoson; see Poquoson. 
Pocotopaug; creek and lake, Chatham 
town, Middlesex county, Conn. (Not 
v Pokatapaug.) 
Podpis; see Polpis: 
Poe; reef, straits of Mackinac, Mich. 
(Not Poe’s.) 
Pogibshi; point on Baranof island, Peril 
strait, Alaska. (Not Danger nor Peril.) 
Pogromni; volcano on Unimak island, 
Aleutian islands, Alaska. (Not Devasta¬ 
tion, Isanotski, Jogutscha, Kugidach, 
Nosowskoj, Pogromnoi, nor Pogrom- 
no j.) 
Pohick; bay and creek, Potomac river, 
Fairfax county, Va. (Not Poheick.) 
Point; see Sorrento. 
Point Arena; town, Mendocino county, 
Cal. (Not Puntas Arenas.) 
Point Au Roche; village, Clinton 
county, N. Y. (Not Point Au Rock.) 
Point au Sable; see Au Sable. 
Point Comfort; beacon, New York 
Lower bay, N. J. (Not Bayside.) 
Point de Galle; seaport town of Ceylon, 
Indian ocean. (Not Galle nor Pun to 
Gallo.) 
Point No Point; point, Puget sound, 
Wash. (Not Point-no-point.) 
Point Sauk; see Sauk. 
Point William; see William. 
Pointe a Pitre; principal town in Grande 
Terre, Guadeloupe island. West Indies. 
(Not La PointeA-Pitre.) 
Pointe au Tonnere; see Thunder. 
Pointe au Tourtre; see Pigeon. 
