is one of the largest and most populous of the islands called the Lagunes near Venice, and where the most considerable of the noblemen have houses of pleasure. It is 15,000 paces in length and 400 in breadth; the principal harbour has also the same name.

**Palfreys**, is one of the better sort of horses used by noblemen or others for state; and sometimes of old Palcaud taken for a horse fit for a woman to ride. Camden says, that William Faconberge held the manor of Cuckney, in the county of Nottingham, in seigniory, by the service of shoeing the king's palfray when the king should come to Mansfield.

**Palicaud**, or **Palgatcherry**, a fortress of considerable strength in India, which commands the passage between the two coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, by way of the Trichinopoly and Coimbetore countries: there is also a communication with it through the Nayre country. It was held by the English; and was of great importance to them, when Coimbetore was in the hands of Tipoo, because, by our holding this place on the well, and Dindigul on the east of Coimbetore, that province was of little use to him in the time of war, without a very large force to protect it. But the fall of that sovereign, and the reduction of his territories, have effected a total change of circumstances. See Memoir of a Map of the Peninsula of India by Major Rennell.

**Palicate**, a sea port town of India, on the side of the Ganges. It is situated on the coast of Coromandel, in the kingdom of Carnate, 70 miles north of Fort St George. Here the Dutch had a factory, and fort called the Fort of Guelderland. E. Long. 80. 1. N. Lat. 13. 34.

**Palici**, or **Palisci**, in Fabulous History, two deities, sons of Jupiter by Thalia, whom Æschylus, according to Macrobius, calls *Eïna*, in a tragedy which is lost. The nymph *Eïna*, when pregnant, begged Jupiter to remove her from the pursuit of Juno. Upon which he concealed her in the bowels of the earth; and when the time of her delivery arrived, the earth opened and brought into the world two children, to whom were given the name of *Palici*, *απὸ τοῦ πάχους γεννηθέντες*, because they came again into the world from the bowels of the earth. These deities were worshipped with many ceremonies by the Sicilians; and near their temple were two small lakes, which were supposed to have sprung out of the earth when they were born. Near these pools it was usual to take the most solemn oaths when any body wished to decide controversies and quarrels. If any of the persons who took the oaths were perjured, they were immediately punished supernaturally; and those whose oath, by the deities of the place, was sincere, departed unhurt. The Palici had also an oracle, which was consulted upon some great emergencies, and which rendered the truest and most unequivocal answers. In a superstitious age, the altars of the Palici were stained with the blood of human sacrifices; but this barbarous custom did not last long, as the deities were satisfied with the usual offerings.

**Palindromus**, a verse or sentence which runs the same when read either backwards or forwards. Such is the verse,

*Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.*

Some people of leisure have refined upon the Palindromus, and composed verses, each word of which is the same backwards as forwards; for instance, that of Camden:

*Odo tenet mulum, maddalam mappam tenet Anna.* *Anna tenet mappam maddalam, mulum tenet Odo.*

**Palingenesia**, among divines, the same with regeneration. Among the chemists, it denotes the producing of a body from its principles.

**Palingenius,**