500 warriors, 20 years ago. They inhabit near the settlements in the Illinois country. A tribe of this name inhabit a village on the Mississippi, a mile above Fort Chatres. It could furnish about the same period 170 warriors of the Piorias and Mitchigamias. They are idle and debauched.] PIPI, a settlement of the jurisdiction of Muzo and corregimiento of Tunja in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada; annexed to the curacy of Yacopi, and as reduced and poor as is this. It produces the same fruits, and is of the same temperature. PIPI, a river of the province and colony of Surinam, in the part of Guayana possessed by the Dutch; and one of those which enter the Caroni. PIPIBOUGOI, a small river of Nova Scotia or Acadia, which runs e. and enters the sea in the strait formed by the coast and the island St. John. PIPINCOS, a settlement of the province and government of Jaen de Bracamoros in the kingdom of Quito. PIPIOLTEPEC, SANTA MARIA DE, a settlement of the head settlement of the district of San Francisco del Valle, and alcaldía mayor of Zultepec in Nueva España. Half a league n. of the settlement of Ahuacatlán. PIQUETE, a fort of the province and government of Tucumán in Peru; built on the shore of a river, to serve as a defence against the infidel Indians. PIQUETE, another fort of this province, and of the same name. PIRA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Guailas in Peru; annexed to the curacy of Pampas. PIRA, a river, called also Horadado, in the province and government of Santa Marta in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada: it divides this province from that of the Rio del Hacha. It flows down from the mountains of the former province, and runs n. till it enters the sea in lat. 11° 18'n. PIRACABI, a small river of the province and government of Paraguay, which runs w. and enters the Paraná between those of Yaquini and Ocoy. PIRACAI, a river of the same province and government as the former; which enters the Uruguay between that of Uruguay-pita and that of Cavaguan. PIRACIACABA, a small river of the kingdom of Brazil; which rises in the mountains, runs from e. to w. and enters the Harihambu or Tiete. PIRAGUA, Point of, on the coast of the province and government of Venezuela in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada; opposite the island of Aves. PIRAGUAS, BOCA DE, an entrance by which the lake of Atole empties itself into the great lake of Maracaibo by the w. side, in the province and government of this name in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada. PIRAGURI, or, according to others, PIRAGUIRI, a settlement of the province and captainship of Pará in Brazil; on the shore of the river Xingu. PIRAJANGUARA, a river of the province and country of Los Amazonas; which rises in the territory of the Guarinumas Indians, runs n. and turning its course to w. enters the Madara. PIRANG, a small river of the province and captainship of Rio Grande in Brazil. It rises near the coast, runs e. and enters the sea between that of Los Buzos and the Ciudad Nueva. PIRAPO, a small river of the province and captainship of Rio Janeyro, in the same kingdom as the former. It runs n. n. w. and enters the Paraná-pane. On its shores stood the settlement of the missions of Loreto, which were destroyed by the Portuguese of San Pablo. PIRAPOPO, a river of the province and government of Paraguay; between those of Guacay and Tembes. PIRARA, a lake of the country of Las Amazonas, between the river Maho and the sources of the Esquivo. It is the waste-water of an arm of the former. PIRAS, a barbarous nation, and but little known, inhabiting the woods near the river Araganatuba. They go entirely naked, and maintain themselves by the chase, having for arms bows and arrows. PIRATINI, a river of the province and government of Paraguay, which runs from s. e. to n. w. and enters the Uruguay between those of Yuy and Icabaqua. PIRATININGA, a settlement of the province and captainship of Rio Janeyro in Brazil; one of the first founded in this kingdom at the beginning of the conquest. It still remains, but is very poor and reduced. PIRATU, a small river of the province and government of Paraguay; which runs w. and enters the Piratini. PIRATUNUNGA, a small river of the province and captainship of Pernambuco in Brazil. It rises near the coast, runs e. and enters the sea between the Tierra and the settlement of San Benito. [PIRAUGY, a river of Brazil, S. America, $. s. e. of Rio Grande and Point Negro.] PIRAURE, a river of the province and country of Las Amazonas, which rises in the territory of the Chirivas Indians, n. of the mountains of the Andes of Cuahoa, runs n. and turning e. enters with a large stream into the Beni. On its shores dwell some Portuguese, who have intruded on the dominions of the king of Spain, and established themselves there. PIRAUSU, a mountain of the coast of Brazil, in the province and captainship of Pará, between the point of Latigioca and the settlement of Munigituba. PIRAY, a river of the province and government of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Peru. It rises s. of the capital, from various rivers, which, united, form one very large, which runs to n. n. w. and enters the river La Plata to encrease the waters of the Marmore. PIRAY, another, a small river, in the province and government of Paraguay; which runs w. and enters the Paraná between those of Paranuay and Aguaray. PIRAY, a settlement of Chiriguanos Indians of the province and government of Santa Cruz de la Sierra; between the river of its name and that of La Plata. PIRAY-GUAZU, a river of the province and government of Buenos Ayres, which enters the Caraguatay. PIRAYMINI, a river of the same province and government as the former, and which also enters the same. PIRAYU, a lake of the province and government of Paraguay. It is at the foot of some mountains near the river Paraguay, to the e. of the city of Asuncion. It empties itself into this same river. [PIRAYU, a parish of the above province and government; situate in a plain about 26 miles s. e. from Asuncion, in lat. 25° 29′ 19′′ s. and long. 57° 15′ 12′′ w.] PIRAYX, a river of the kingdom of Peru, which rises in the territory and country of the Chiriguanos Indians, on the n. w. part, laves the territory of the Juracares, and, after running 40 leagues from s. to n. enters by the w. shore into the Guapay, with the name of Pesca, at 54 miles distance from the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in lat. 16° 39′ s. PIRCA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Canta in Peru; annexed to the curacy of Atabillos Altos. PIRHUANI, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Pilaya and Paspaya in Peru. [PIRIBEBUI, a parish of the province and government of Paraguay; situate in the road from Asuncion to Villa de Curuguaty, and about 32 miles s. e. from the former, in lat. 25° 27′ 54′′ s. and long. 57° 4′ 37′′ w.] PIRINBAI, a river of the province and government of Maracaibo in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada. It rises in the island formed by the river Catacumbo, at its entrance into the lake of Maracaibo, and runs into this lake. PIRINÓTA, a small river of the province and government of Guayana or Nueva Andalucia: one of those which enter the Cuyuni by the n. side. PIRIOS, a settlement of Dutch Guayana or colony of Surinam; on the shore of the river Marawini. PIRIPIRI, a settlement of the province and captainship of Pernambuco in Brazil; near the sea-coast. PIRITI, a small river of the province and government of Buenos Ayres in Peru. PIRITU, a province of the Nuevo Reyno de Granada; bounded by that of Venezuela on the e. at the Cape of Codera and by that of Cumaná, on the w. by the river and vallies of Santa Fé. Its length of coast between the two aforesaid provinces is 70 leagues; and its climate is intolerably hot during calms, but temperate when the breezes are up. In the time of the rains the heat is more intense, heat is more intense, from the vapours which exhale from the earth; and these begin from the month of June and last till October. The rains in common years are almost daily, and always attended with storms of thunder and lightning. The days are equal. This province is watered by many rivers, all of which run into the sea: the Pertigalete, Guantar, Nevery, Huare, Uchire, Cupira, Paparo, Higuerote, and Curiepe. On its coast are some bays, and convenient ports, which abound in fish of various kinds, and in shell-fish, of which the natives are very fond. Also in the mountains are a great variety of wild beasts, lions, tigers, very large and fierce; two kinds of bears, antas, sanos; porcupines, rabbits, squirrels, and four different sorts of monkies, one only of which, called araguata, is eaten by the Indians: these are large, of a red colour, and have long beards like goats. Here also breed numbers of deer, and plenty of noxious creatures, such as snakes of different species, rattle-snakes, ant-eaters, which they here call quiaguequenoto; centipes, scorpions; very large spiders, black and hairy; ticks, and musquitoes of many sorts, so troublesome, that it is impossible to sleep without a musquito-net. These latter insects sometimes appear in a cloud, obscuring the sun. Here are also reremice, which, although prejudicial, since they sometimes bite the tops of the fingers of a person asleep, have the property of eating up the musquitoes, there being some of these latter most troublesome insects, which leave in the puncture the seed for a worm which breeds within the cutis, causing incredible pain unless it be killed with tobacco. This province is no less plagued with noxious ants, but there is a great, rare, and excellent variety of birds, as of parrots, which learn with greater facility to speak the Indian than the Spanish language; cotoras, which are very loquacious; cardenales, of a most beautiful colour; and another bird, as small as the goldfinch, of a green colour, with the union of the wings blue, and the beak curved; which imitates the song of the other birds, and is called by the Indians pupitiri, another called turicha, which has the breast and wings black and white, and the rest of the body orange, and which is domesticated so as to eat from the hand or the table. Here are also partridges, which, although resembling the European, are much larger and of a different colour and note; quails, doves, turtle-doves, geese, white and black turkies with yellow feet, and wild fowl. This province was peopled by Indians of the nations of the Cumanagotos, Palenques or Guatines, Cores, Tumuzas, Chaimas, Farautes, Cuacas, Arvacas, Caribes, and others. Its conquest was proposed to the king by Don Juan de Urpin, native of the principality of Cataluña; when it fell out that the natives surrendered themselves up, seeking a peace. a peace. This person then founded the city of Barcelona, at a distance from that of the present day. A short time after he died, and was succeeded by Captain Diego de Urbes; but the violences offered by the Indians induced his majesty Philip to ask the opinion of Don Fernando Lobo, bishop of Puerto Rico, to whose diocess the province belonged: and this dignitary having returned for answer, that these Indians were rather to be conquered by mild than coercive measures, and that the peaceful influence of the gospel would tend more to ensure their obedience than the force of arms; the monarch caused to be sent thither some religious of the order of San Francisco, who entered the province in 1656 from the convent of Abrojo; and who, with their commissary Fr. Juan de Mendoza, who had been provincial in Florida, and with others who have since succeeded to the mission, have reduced to the Catholic faith those infidels, founding 40 settlements which still exist, and in which dwell 12,000 Indians, and are as follows: Nra. Sra. de la Con cepcion del Piritú, Sta. Clara de Lapata, S. Antonio de Manareima, S. Joseph de Chiguatacuar, S. Miguel de Araveneicuar, Jesus, Maria y Joseph de Caigua Patar, S. Antonio de Carines, Ntra. Sra. del Pilar de Guaimacuar, S. Juan Evangelista de Aguaritacuar, San Buena ventura de Chacopata, Mucuras, San Pedro Regalado de Cabrutico, S.Diego de Chacopata, S. Francisco de Cutu acuar, Sta. Cruz de Cachipo, San Joseph de Cura- San Francisco Solano San Diego de Cua cuar, San Pedro Alcántara San Bernardino Guer- Santa Ana, San Pablo de Mata ruco, Santisimo Christo de Santa Barbara, S. Joaquin de Pariri, Sta. Rosa de Ocopi, Nra. Sra. de Chamariapa, S. Antonio de Guazaiparo. It takes the name of Piritú from the country or territory inhabited by its natives, from the abundance of a species of small palm found here, the fruit of which resembles unripe grapes, and having the trunk like a cane, covered with thorns very black, and so strong and close, as to be used for pipes for smoking, it resisting very strongly the influence of fire. If any one wishes to instruct himself further on the subject of this ar ticle, let him see the conversion of the Indians of Piritú, written by the Father, Fr. Matias Ruiz Blanco; also the history of Nueva Andalucia, by Fr. Antonio Caulin; both missionaries of the order of San Francisco in this province. PIRITU, the capital, is the settlement of the same name, with the dedicatory title of Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion: founded in 1656 by Fr. Juan de Mendoza, commissary of the first missionaries of the order of San Francisco, who entered to preach the gospel there. It is situate in a moderate-sized ravine, which is surrounded by a serrania, about 1 miles from the sea, and 15 from the city of Barcelona. The territory is scant of water, and the inhabitants are obliged to cultivate the lands at a league's distance: but it abounds in exquisite fish and shell-fish, as also in neat cattle. It has a magnificent church, the best of all that bishopric. Its population, at the present day, amounts to 1600 souls of all ages, who are of good dispositions and laborious, constant in the faith and friendly to the Spaniards. PIRITU, some isles of the N. Sea, situate near the coast of the former province, from which they are named: they are two in number, desert, and lie w. of the city of Barcelona. PIROS, a barbarous and cruel nation of Indians dwelling in the woods near the river Ucayale, e. and n. of the rivers Yapati and Manua, in the province and country of Las Amazonas. It is very numerous, and at continual war with the Cunivos. These Indians were reduced to the Catholic religion by the Jesuits; but they suddenly rose and put to death their vicar Enrico Ricter, and betook themselves to the woods, returning to their idolatry: in 1764 their reduction was again undertaken, and for this purpose there entered amongst them some of the religious of San Francisco, of the province of Lima. PIROYOL, a small river of the province and government of Venezuela in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada: it rises near the town of San Sebastian to the n. runs w. and enters the Guarico. PIRQUE, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Quispicanchi, in Peru, annexed to the curacy of Papres. PIRQUI, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Santiago in the kingdom of Chile; near the head of the river Maipo. PIRRI, a settlement of the province and government of Darien and kingdom of TierreFirme; on the shore of the river of its name, near its mouth. PIRRI, this river rises in the mountains of the s. part, runs n. and enters the Grande de Tuira. PIRU. See PERU. PIRUBIPIBA, a river of the province and captainship of Espiritu Santo in Brazil. It rises in the mountains, runs n. and enters the Paracatus. PIRUMA, a settlement of Indians of the district of Puchacay in the kingdom of Chile; on the shore of the river Hueda, and to the n. of the town of the Nombre de Maria. PIRUSAI, a river of the province and government of Esmeraldas in the kingdom of Quito: it runs from s. e. to n. w. and, after collecting the waters of the Nambillo and Canchupi, turns its course to w. laves the settlement of Mindo, which is on its n. shore, and, after being united with the Chaloya, takes the name of Rio Blanco, and, with others, augments the stream of the Guallabamba, and forms that of Esmeraldas, in lat. 27'n. PISAGUA, or PISAHUA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Arica in Peru, annexed to the curacy of the settlement of Camiña, with a port in the S. Sea. In it is caught abundance of fish by the natives, which is carried for sale to the internal provinces of the kingdom: in lat. 19° 40' s. PISAGUA, a small river of this province and kingdom, which rises in the Cordillera from three or four streams, which unite, runs w. and enters the sea opposite the rocks. PISAGUA, a part of the kingdom of Quito, in the province of Chimbo, of the road which leads to the settlement of Bodegas. It is noted from the danger attached to it, in its being so deep of mud from the quantities of water. PISANO, or PESANO SANTA CATALINA, a settlement of the missions held by the religious order of San Francisco, in the province of Caxamarquilla and kingdom of Peru: on the shore of the river of its name. PISANO, the aforesaid river rises in the sierra. which divides this province from that of Luya. and Chillaos, runs e. and enters the Marañon. PISBA, a settlement of the jurisdiction of Santiago de las Atalayas in the province and government of San Juan de los Llanos in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada. It is of an hot temperature, but more mild than that of the other settlements of this province: it abounds in goats, and is very fertile in maize, yucas, plantains, and cotton, of which a portion of linen is made, and of which is its chief commerce: 32 leagues from Tunja. [PISCA, a town of the audience of Lima in Peru. See Pisco.] [PISCADORES, or FISHERS, two great rocks on the coast of Peru, in lat. 16.° 19' s. near the broken gap between Attico and Ocona.] [PISCADORES, rocks above the town of Callao, in Peru; five leagues n. n. w. of Callao Port: they are six in number; the largest is w. of the port of Ancon de Rhodas, and three leagues s. e. of Chaucai Port.] PISCATAQUA, a port of the N. Sea, on the coast of the province of Continent, one of those of New England in N. America, where its boundaries touch upon the boundaries of New Hampshire. It is formed by the river of this name, which runs 40 miles, and it is the only port in this province: moreover, the river for 15 miles appears rather a ditch than a river. It has at its entrance the island of Newcastle, of 14 miles long, and 14 wide. This river is navigable for large vessels nine miles above the w. arm of the Exeter. [This port and river are more generally known by the title of PASCATAQUA, which see; also Index to Additional History concerning Massachusetts. Anno 1641.] [PISCATAQUA, Head. See YORK COUNTY, Maine.] [PISCATAQUA, the ancient name of lands in the district of Maine, supposed to comprehend the lands known by the name of Kittery and Berwick. PISCATAWAY, a city of the County of Middlesex in New Jersey. It contains 90 families, who possess 40,000 acres of land; and is situate on the shore of the river Raritan, 6 miles from its mouth. [It has, at present, upwards of 3000 inhabitants, including 300 slaves. It is 34 miles n. e. of New Brunswick, and 14 s. w. of Elizabeth Town.] [PISCATAWAY, a small post town of Prince George's County, Maryland; situate on the creek of its name which runs w. into Patowmac River, opposite Mount Vernon in Virginia, and 13 miles s. of the Federal City. The town is 11 miles s. w. of Upper Marlborough, 14 n. of Port Tobacco, and 38 s. w. by s. of Baltimore.] PISCATAWAY, a small river of the province and colony of Virginia, which runs c. and enters the Rapahanock, near its mouth. PISCO, a town of the province and corregimiento of Ica in Peru; founded by order of the Marquis of Cañete on the coast of the S. Sea, with a good port, much frequented by vessels, and abounding in fish, which the Indians salt, and carry to sell in the interior provinces. Its territory is extremely fertile in wheat, oil, maize, and especially in vines, of which is made a wine much esteemed for its quality throughout Peru. It was formerly a large and rich town, but now much reduced through the misfortunes it has experienced the first, when it was sacked by the Dutch pirate James Hermit Clerk (whom the : Ex-Jesuit Coleti names Termin, and makes an Englishman), in 1624; afterwards by Edward David, in 1686; and at last it was quite demolished by an earthquake in 1687, and not in 1682, as that author asserts; the sea completely inundating it, and when it was, on that account, removed to the place where it now stands. It has two convents of religious; the one of San Francisco; the other of San Juan de Dios, with a good hospital; and it had a small college of the Jesuits: 118 miles in a s. direction from Lima, in long. 76° 9' w. lat. 13° 46′ s. Pisco, a river of the province and corregimiento of the town of Ibarra in the kingdom of Quito. Quito. It runs w. through the territory of the settlement of Pimampiro, and then unites itself with the river of Los Angeles, in lat. 29' n. PISCHILIN, a river of the province and government of Popayán in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, which enters the Putumayo at a small distance from its source. PISCOBAMBA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Andahuailas in Peru, annexed to the curacy of Ongoy. PISCO BAMBA, another settlement in the province and corregimiento of Conchucos in the same kingdom. PISCOPAMBA, an ancient province of Peru in the time of the Incas; now united to that of Cuzco conquered and united to the empire by Pachacutec, tenth emperor, after a long and bloody war. PISMANTA, a settlement of Indians of the province and corregimiento of Coquimbo in the kingdom of Chile, on the skirt of the volcano of Coquimbo. PISQUE, an abundant river of the kingdom of Quito, which rises in the mountain or páramo of Cayamburu on its w. part, collecting the waters which flow by the s. from the Moxanda, and, following a w. course, enters the Guaillabamba. PISQUE, LADERA DE, a part of the road bordering on the skirt of the mountain below which runs the former river. It is of a great extent, but very narrow and dangerous in some parts, so as to have become noted. It is in the direct road from the town of Ibarra to Quito. [PISS-POT, a bay on the s. shore of the Straits of Magellan, in the Long Reach, eight leagues w. by n. of Cape Notch, lat. 53° 20′ s. long. 73° 28' w.] PISTOLA, CANO DE, an arm which runs from the river S. Felipe, after that this issues from the Gamalotal. PISTOLES, a river of Canada in N. Ame |