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Poti

a seaport of Russian Caucasus; at the mouth of the Rion river, on the E. shore of the Black Sea, 200 miles W. of Tiflis. Here maize and manganese are shipped. Poti was seized by Russia in 1828.

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Potocki

an ancient Polish family, taking its name from the castle of Potok, and still holding possessions in Galicia and the Ukraine. Among its most distinguished members was Count Ignatius, Grand Marshal of Lithuania before the downfall of Poland, and a fellow-patriot of Kosciusko, born in 1751. In 1791 he took refuge in Saxony, returning, however, to share in the last struggle for independence. He was some time in the depende prisons of St. Petersburg and Warsaw, pris and died in Vienna in 1809.

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Potosi

po-to'si, a city of Bolivia. It is situated in the province of the same name about 100 miles southwest of the capital, Sucre. Like Butte and Virginia, it is preeminently a mining city. It is situated at an elevation of 13,000 feet above the sea, being one of the highest inhabited places known. Silver mines were opened as early as 1545. The Spanish crown opened a royal mint for the convenience of the miners. Silver to the value of $3,000,000,000 has been mined here. A hundred years after the opening of the mines the population was estimated at 150,000. The mines are now less productive than formerly and the town has a deserted appearance. At present there are less than 20,000. The mint, the cathedral, several convents, churches, and other public buildings attest the former importance of the city.

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Potsdam Sandstone

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

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Pottawattamies

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.

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Potter

PAUL M., an American dramatist; born in Brighton, England, June 3, 1852; entered journalism and was foreign editor of the New York hard " Herald " in 1876-1883. Subsequently other he turned his attention to the drama. paste is His best - known works are " Our Country glaze Cousins" (1893), a dramatization of 1895); and "Under Two "Trilby" ( Flags" (1901). He was the American representative at the Congress of Dramatic Art at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

HENRY CODMAN, an American clergyman; born in Schenectady, N. Y., May 25, 1835. Educated in theology in Virginia, he became rector of Grace Church, New York City, in 1868; and was consecrated Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York in 1887. His works include: "Gates of the East: A Winter in Egypt and Syria" (1876); "Sermons of the City" (1881); etc. He died July 21, 1908.

PAUL, a Dutch painter; born in Enkhuisen, Netherlands, Nov. 20, 1625; settled at The Hague, and painted cattle and landscapes, but was particularly successful in the former. One of his most celebrated pictures is "The Bull," at The Hague. He died in Amsterdam, Jan. 27, 1654.

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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 hospita 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 castings, steel wheels, metallic axles, car riages, nails, boilers, agricultural implements, cigars, etc. Pop. (1910) 15,599; (1920) 17,431.

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Pottsville

a borough and countyseat of Schuylkill co., Pa.; on the Schuylkill river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, the People's, the Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Valley railroads; 93 miles N. W. of Philadelphia. Here are the court house and county jail, high school, public hospital, parks, street railroads, electric lights, waterworks, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The industries include important anthracite coal mines, large steel works, planing mills, a silk mill, and the shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Pop. (1910) 20,236; (1920) 21,876.

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Pouched Mouse

Dipodomys, a genus of small, lean, long-tailed, agile 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.

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Pouched Rat

Pseudostoma or Geomys, a genus of plump, short-tailed, hamster-like rodents, with cheek pouches which open externally and are used as receptacles for food. One of the best known species is P. or G. bursarius, sometimes called "gopher." Like the other species it is a native of North America, and inhabits the territory E. of the Rocky Mountains and W. of the Mississippi. It is a burrower like the mole, active in warm weather, hibernatng in cold, sluggish above ground. ing Being voracious gnawers, the pouched rats do much damage to the roots of trees and crops.

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Poughkeepsie

a city and countyseat of Dutchess co., N. Y.; on the Hudson river, and the Central New England, and the New York Central and Hudson River railroads; 75 miles N. of New York. It has daily steamboat connection with New York and Albany. The Hudson is here crossed by a celebrated cantilever bridge which was completed in 1889 at a cost of nearly $5,000,000. It is 7,100 feet long, has three cantilevers, and rests on six massive piers. Poughkeepsie is the seat of VASSAR COLLEGE (q. v.). Here are Riverview Military Academy, and other private educational institutions, parks, public library, orphan asylum, Home for Old Men, Home for Old Women, General Hos pital, Hudson River Hospital for the Insane, court house, Home for the Friendless less,, National and private banks, electric lights and street railroads, and daily and weekly periodicals. Poughkeepsie has manufactories of iron, machinery, boots and shoes, leather, carpets, glass, shirts, silk goods, clothing, flour, earthenware, drugs, etc. The city was settled by the Dutch in 1698; during the Revolution it was the capital of New York. The State convention to ratify the National Constitution met here in 1788. Pop. (1910) 27,936; (1920) 35,000.

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