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 170 PATTI Selwyn in 1854 to New Zealand, and labored there and in neighboring islands as a mis- sionary till 1861, when he was consecrated at Auckland as bishop of the Melanesian islands. He devoted the rest of his life to cruising about among the islands of his diocese, laboring for the improvement of the natives and for the suppression of the kidnapping carried on to supply Queensland and other colonies with la- borers. In attempting to land at Santa Cruz, his boat was fired upon by the natives, he was killed, and his chaplain Mr. Atkin died from wounds a few days afterward. It is supposed that the natives mistook the missionary ship for a kidnapping vessel. See "Life of John Coleridge Patteson," by Charlotte Mary Yonge (2 vols. 12mo, London, 1874), and " The Story of a Fellow Soldier," by Francis Awdry (1875). PATH. I. ideltaa Maria Clorinda, an operatic singer, born in Madrid, April 9, 1843. Both her father and mother were professional sing- ers, and from birth she was surrounded with musical influences, receiving much of her in- struction in the art from Barili, her half brother, and Maurice Strakosch, husband of her elder sister Amelia, who was also distin- guished as a singer. In 1844 the Patti family removed to New York, where Adelina sang in concerts when she was eight years old, and on Nov. 24, 1859, made her debut as prima donna at the academy of music, in the character of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her success was im- mediate, and her brilliant future correctly pre- dicted. On May 14, 1861, she made her first appearance in London in Bellini's Sonnarribula ; and on Nov. 16, 1862, she appeared in the same opera at Paris. Her success was no less in Europe than in America, and her engage- ments at London and Paris were followed by others at the principal capitals, where, especial- ly in Russia, her popularity has been almost unrivalled. Besides a voice of exceptional beauty, range, and flexibility, she possesses rare powers as an actress. Though too small of stature adequately to personate the great char- acters of the highest style of tragic opera, her preeminence in parts requiring pathos and sentiment, such as Donizetti's Lucia and Gou- nod's Marguerite, or archness and coquetry, such as Mozart's Zerlina or Rossini's Rosina, is indisputable. On July 29, 1868, she was married in London to the marquis de Caux, a French nobleman. II. Carlotta, sister of the preceding, born in Florence in 1840. She pos- sesses a soprano voice extending to G sharp in alto, and her facility of vocalization is as re- markable as her range of voice. Owing to a slight lameness, she has confined herself almost entirely to concert singing, though she has oc- casionally appeared in opera, in such parts as that of the Queen of Night in Mozart's " Magic Flute," with great success. PATTISON, Robert Everett, an American clergy- man, born in Benson, Vt., Aug. 19, 1800, died in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 21, 1874. He graduated at Amherst college in 1826, was appointed a PAU tutor in Columbian college, D. C., was ordained in 1829, and in 1830 became pastor of the first Baptist church in Providence, R. I. From this post he was called to a professorship in Waterville college, Maine, of which he was president from 1836 to 1840. He then be- came pastor of the second Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., and in 1841 returned to his pastoral charge at Providence. In 1843 he was elected one of the corresponding secretaries of the Baptist board of foreign missions. He was president and professor of Christian theology in the western Baptist theological institute, at Covington, Ky., from 1845 to 1848, when he was appointed to a similar professorship in the Newton theological seminary, Mass., from which he was again called to the presidency of Waterville college in 1853. In 1858 he resigned and took charge of the Oread female institute, at Worcester, Mass. He was professor of sys- tematic theology in Shurtleff college, Alton, 111., from 1864 to 1870, when he was called to a professorship in the Baptist theological semi- nary of Chicago, which he resigned on account of ill health in 1874. For one year he was acting president of the university of Chicago. He published a " Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Practical, on the Epistle to the Ephesians" (Boston, 1859). PATUXENT, a river of Maryland, rising about 20 m. from the city of Frederick, and, after a S. E. course of about 40 m. and a nearly S. course of 50 m., discharging itself through an estuary 2 or 3 m. wide into Chesapeake bay. It forms the dividing line between Montgom- ery, Prince George's, Charles, and St. Mary's counties on the south and west, and Howard, Anne Arundel, and Calvert counties on the north and east. Small vessels can ascend it 40 m. to Nottingham. PAF, a town of France, capital of the depart- ment of Basses-Pyrenees, on the right bank of the Gave de Pau, 410 m. S. by W. of Paris; pop. in 1872, 24,800. It is delightfully situ- ated on a precipitous height, regularly laid out, and well built. The charm of the scenery and the mild and healthful climate attract to Pau many visitors, especially in winter ; and there are three Protestant Episcopal churches and a Scotch Presbyterian church. Linen cloths, cel- ebrated as toiles de Bearn, and fine table cloths, tapestry carpets, and cutlery are manufactured ; and the place is noted for its Jurancon wine. Pau was founded in the llth century ; a vis- count of Beam built a strong castle on the top of a hill, and having marked the limits of the ground with stakes or pans, the town took the appellation. In the 14th century the castle was rebuilt by Gaston Phoebus, count of Foix, and the place became the chief town of Beam. Near the place Royale in the centre of the town, with a statue of Henry IV., is a fine promenade, and a park is formed by a natural terrace along the right bank of the Gave, well wooded and shaded, and connected through a square planted with trees with the castle. The