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Potomac

SOCIETY OF by Gen. George B. McClellan in 1861, and served under him in the Peninsular campaign and later in that of Antietam.

General Burnside took command in 1862, and General Hooker in 1863. General Meade was in command when the victory at Gettysburg was won, in July, 1863, and continued in charge during General Grant's operations in 1864-1865.

Potsdam Sandstone

an American sandstone of Cambrian age, containing trilobites, Lingula antiqua, etc. large

Pot Stone

the name given in Norfolk, England, to certain large flints with a nucleus of chalk, found in the Upper Chalk. Also, an impure variety of soapstone or compact talc, formerly used for making utensils of various kinds.

Pottawattamies

a tribe of a American Indians, belonging to the Algonquian stock. The early French settlers established a mission among them at Green Bay, and to this day many of them are Roman Catholics. They sided with the English during the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812, and afterward settled in Kansas. They now number about 1,200.

Pouched Mouse

Dipodomys, a genus of small, lean, long-tailed, agile and seizing prey. Poulpes swim by contractions of the muscular web of the body, which extends upon the arms.

Like other cephalopods, when alarmed or annoyed, they discharge an inky fluid.

POULSON plasm.

POULTRY

Poundal

a name sometimes used for the absolute foot pound second unit of force, which will produce in one pound a velocity of one foot per second, after acting for one second.

Pouter

a variety of fancy pigeon, the chief character of which is its very projecting breast.

POWAN (Coregonus clupeoides), a fish inhabiting Loch Lomond, in Scotland, and also known as the fresh-water herring.

POWDER. See GUNPOWDER.

Powhatan

an Indian chief; born about 1550; was the father of Pocahontas, who is celebrated in the colonial history of Virginia as the rescuer of John Smith. He died in April, 1618.

Poynings' Law

or the Statute of Drogheda, an act of the Irish Parliament, passed in 1495, whereby all general statutes before that time made in England were declared of force in Ireland. It was so named from Sir Edward Poynings, deputy of Ireland under Henry VII. in 1494, when he suppressed the revolt of Perkin Warbeck.

Pozsony

Hungarian name for PRESSBURG (q. v.).

Prairie

the name given by the early French settlers in America to extensive tracts of land, either level or rolling, destitute of trees, and covered with coarse tall grass, interspersed with numerous varieties of flowering plants.

Prairie Chicken

the popular name of the pinnated grouse of the United States (Tetrao cupido).