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Pillar of Hercules – Pinnace

Pillar of Hercules

THE, Calpé (now Gibraltar rock), and Abyla, opposite to it in Africa, which Greek story says were torn asunder and separated by Hercules Hercules about 1220 B. C. The Mediterwas previously, like the Caspian, without connection with the ocean, hence the name Mediterraneum Mare (Inland Sea).

Pilot Knob

a remarkable hill in Louis. It is nearly 500 feet high, and is composed almost entirely of magnetic iron ore. fertile and beautiful valley, 52 miles S.

Piman

a linguistic stock of North American Indians who occupy a vast area extending over Southern Arizona ber about 90,000. and Northwestern Mexico. They num having the adipose fin well developed;

Pimelodus

a genus of Siluridæ dorsal and anal short; the former with pungent spine and six rays; barbels six; palate edentulous; ventrals six-rayed, inserted behind the dorsal. Forty species majority of small size and plain coloraare known from South America, the tion. Two species are from West Africa PIMPERNEL

Pin

a piece of wood, metal, etc., generally pointed and used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support; a peg, a bolt. Also a small piece of wire, generally brass, headed and pointed, used as a fastening, etc., for dress, or for attaching separate pieces of paper, etc., or as an ornament.

Pinacothek

or PINAKOTHEK, a name sometimes applied in Germany to galleries of art, especially collections of paintings. The Pinacothek formed at Munich by Louis I. of Bavaria is particularly famous.

Pindus

the ancient name of the principal mountain range of Northern Greece, forming the watershed of the country and the boundary between Thessaly and Epirus. It was, like Helicon and Parnassus, a seat of Apollo and the Muses.

PINEAPPLE the islands they sometimes reach the weight of 17 pounds, though the average weight is six.

Pine Chafer

or PINE BEETLE (Hylophagus piniperda), a species of beetle which infests Scotch pines. It feeds on the young shoots of these trees and eats its way into the heart, thus converting the shoot into a tube.

Pinerolo

or PIGNEROL (province of Turin) a town of North Italy, at the PINKNEY cotton, and silk are manufactured. Pop. about 13,000.

Pinguicula

a genus of plants of the natural order Lentibulariaceæ, with rosettes of fleshy radical leaves, and solitary purple, violet, or yellow flowers.

Pink-Eye

a highly contagious disease in horses.

Pinnace

a man-of-war's boat, next