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 PALMAS PALMER PALMAS, Cape. See CAPE PALMAS PALMAS, Cindad Real de las, a fortified maritime city of the Canary islands, on the N. E. coast of -Grand Canary; lat. 28 7' N., Ion. 15 32' W. ; pop. about 14,500. It is situated on the river Angostura, at the head of a beautiful bay, and comprises an old and a new division. An aqueduct supplies the town with water. The chief public edifices are the cathedral, four churches, a convent (five others having of late years been appropriated to other purposes), the city hall, the court house (in the old inquisi- tion building), a general and a foundling hos- pital, and a hospital exclusively for elephantia- sis. There are a college, a seminary, and other schools. The climate is very mild and equa- ble, the temperature varying annually from 68 to 90 F. The port, though not well sheltered, has a mole about 900 ft. long by 80 ft. wide, and is visited yearly by a large number of ships, the steamers averaging 100, and the sailing vessels 1,000. The annual value of the exports is about $1,800,000, chiefly in cochineal, and of the imports $2,000,000. The foreign trade is principally with Great Britain, Spain, and the Spanish West Indies. The chief manufac- tures are hats, woollens, linens, carpets, glass and earthern ware, with shipping tackle, chairs, &c. ; and ship building and fishing are exten- sively carried on. PALMBLAD,Vilhelm Fredrik, a Swedish author, born at Liljested, Dec. 16, 1788, died in Upsal, Sept. 2, 1852. He studied at the university of Upsal. In 1810 he bought the academic print- ing office, and began the publication of the "Phosphorus," in 1812 of the Poetisk Kalen- der, and in 1813 of the Svenslc Literaturti- dende, all of which periodicals had much in- fluence in the development of Swedish litera- ture, turning it from French to German mod- els. In 1830 he was made vice president and subsequently president of the Swedish literary society, and in 1835 professor of Greek litera- ture in the university of Upsal, and became editor of the biographical lexicon of distin- guished Swedes, completed in 23 vols. in 1857. He wrote, besides other works, Supplemented in Lexica Graca (1822), and several novels, of which Familjen Fallcensvard (2 vols., Orebro, 1844-'5) and Aurora Konigsmark are the most deserving of mention. One of his most im- portant works was the uncompleted Hand- lok i pliysiska ocJi politislca OeograpJiia (5 vols., Upsal, 1826-'37). He also contributed to Ersch and Gruber's Encylclop&dte, and to Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexicon. PALMELLA, Dom Pedro de SoHza-Holstein, duke de, a Portuguese statesman, born in Turin in 1786, died in Lisbon, Oct. 12, 1850. In 1814- '15 he represented Portugal in the congress of Vienna. In 1816 he became minister of for- eign affairs in Brazil, in 1820 president of the regency of Portugal, and in 1823 minister of foreign affairs and marquis. In 1825 he was ambassador to England. In 1828 he adhered to Dona Maria, and the regent Dom Miguel sen- tenced him to death for high treason. Under the regency of Dom Pedro in 1832 he became premier, and shortly afterward was again am- bassador to England. He returned to Lisbon with Villaflor in 1833, and in 1834 Dona Ma- ria made him premier and raised him to the rank of duke. The insurrection of 1836 drove him into exile, but he returned in 1846. PALMER, Christian von, a German theologian, born at Winnenden, near Stuttgart, Jan. 27, 1811. He completed his studies in Tubingen, became professor in 1852, and in 1853 was en- nobled. In 1869 he was vice president of the national synod of Wiirtemberg, and in 1870 was elected to the diet. He is a represen- tative of the so-called conciliatory theology. His principal works are : Evangelische Homi- letik (Stuttgart, 1842 ; 5th ed., 1867) ; Evan- gelische KatecJietilc (1844; 5th ed., 1864); Evangelische Padagogik (1852 ; 4th ed., 1869) ; Evangelische Pastor aliheologie (1860 ; 2d ed., 1861) ; Die Moral des Christenthums (1864) ; Evangelische Casualreden (4 vols., 4th ed., 1864-'5) ; and Evangelische Hymnologie (1865). PALMER, Edward Henry, an English oriental- ist, born in Cambridge, Aug. 7, 1840. He graduated at Cambridge in 1867, accompanied the Sinai survey expedition in 1868-'9, and explored the land of Moab and other regions of the East in 1869-'70. In 1871 he became professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He has translated Moore's "Paradise and the Peri" into Persian, the Persian " History of Donna Juliana" into French, and various Persian po- ems into English. Among his prose writings are " The Negah, or South Country of Scrip- ture, and the Desert of Et-Tih" (1871), and " The Desert of the Exodus : Journeys on foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings" (1871). PALMER, Erastns Dow, an American sculptor, born in Pompey, Onondaga co., N. Y., April 2, 1817. He was brought up to the trade of a joiner, and at an early age attracted attention by ingenious carvings in wood of natural ob- jects, such as leaves and animals. At the age of 29, while working at his trade in Utica, in- cited by a cameo portrait, he procured a shell and made a similar head of his wife. The success of this work decided him, and after a few years' practice in cameo cutting he turned his attention to sculpture, having in the mean time settled in Albany. His first work in marble, an ideal bust of the infant Ceres, mod- elled from one of his own children, was exhib- ited at the New York academy of design in 1850. This was followed by two bass reliefs of " Morning" and " Evening," and a statue of life size representing an Indian girl contem- plating a crucifix which she holds in her hand. Among his other statues in marble are " The Sleeping Peri," " The Little Peasant," " Mem- ory," a full-length recumbent statue of a young girl, a monumental work in Grace church, Uti- ca, and " The Angel at the Sepulchre," a statue of heroic size in the Albany rural cemetery,