a town of Asia, in the dominions of the Great Mogul, and capital of a territory of the same name, to the north of the kingdom of Bengal, where the English have factories for saltpetre, borax, and raw silk. It also produces large quantities of opium. The town is large, but the houses are built at a distance from each other. It is seated in a fertile pleasant country, 400 miles east of Agra. E. Long. 85. 40. N. Lat. 25. 25.

PATANCE, in heraldry, is a cross, flory at the ends; from which it differs only in this, that the ends, instead of turning down like fleur-de-lis, are extended somewhat in the pattée form. See FLORY.

POTOMACK, a large river of North America, in Virginia, which rises in the Alleghany mountains, separates Virginia from Maryland, and falls into Chesapeake bay. It is about seven miles broad, and is navigable for near 200 miles.