Pottstown
a borough in Montgomery co., Pa.; on the Schuylkill river, the Schuylkill canal, and the Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads; 40 miles N. W. of Philadelphia. It is the trade center of a large agricultural region. Here are a high school, public hospital, Hill School, street railroad and electric light plants, National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. The borough has rolling mills, furnaces, foundries, railroad repair shops, and manufactories of iron cast- POULPE rodents, with cheek-pouches. The best known species is D. philippii, from the waste regions of California, where it seems to find a sparse diet of seeds and roots, and in the dry season no drink but dew.