niversity flourish. However, in 1693, he went to Leyden, where he was made professor of history, eloquence, and the Greek tongue; in which employment he continued till his death, which happened in 1715. He wrote many Dissertations, and other learned and curious works, particularly Origines Babyloniæ et Egyptianæ, 2 vols. 8vo, &c. But the part of his labours which is the most generally known, and perhaps the most useful, is the notes which he wrote upon Sanchi Minerva. That work, as published by Perizonius, certainly suggested the idea of Harris's Hermes; and we hesitate not to say, that our countryman has made hardly any improvement on the system of his matter.the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, mingled with the Canaanites. There is also great probability that they themselves were Carthaginians; but having no fixed habitations, sometimes dispersed in one country and sometimes in another, they were for that reason called Perizzites, which signifies scattered or dispersed. Pherezites stands for hamlets or villages. The Perizzites did not inhabit any certain portion of the land of Canaan; there were some of them on both sides the river Jordan, in the mountains, and in the plains. In several places of Scripture the Canaanites and Perizzites are mentioned as the two chief people of the country. It is said, for example, that in the time of Abraham and Lot the Canaanite and Perizzite were in the land (Gen. xiii. 7.). The Israelites of the tribe of Ephraim complained to Joshua that they were too much pent up in their possession (Josh. xvii. 15.) : he bid them go, if they pleased, into the mountains of the Perizzites, and Rephaim or giants, and there clearing the land, to cultivate and inhabit it. Solomon subdued the remains of the Canaanites and Perizzites which the children of Israel had not rooted out, and made them tributary to him (1 Kings ix. 20, 21. and 2 Chr. viii. 7.). There is still mention made of the Perizzites in the time of Ezra (ix. 1.), after the return from the captivity of Babylon; and several Israelites had married wives from that nation.

PERRIN, a beverage prepared from pears. See Ciderkin, under Agriculture, No. 656.