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 542 PISCICULTURE PISIDIA large number of lakes, of which the principal are Sebec, Pamedumcook, Caribou, Chesun- cook, and Moosehead ; the last named is the largest, and is 35 in. long by from 4 to 12 m. wide. A large portion of the land is yet un- settled. The Bangor and Piscataquis railroad traverses the S. part of the county. The chief productions in 1870 were 12,276 bushels of wheat, 36,142 of Indian corn, 140,652 of oats, 35,485 of barley, 352,915 of potatoes, 420,362 Ibs. of butter, 57,419 of cheese, 80,753 of wool, and 41,187 tons of hay. There were 2,938 horses, 4,714 milch cows, 2,250 working oxen, 5,764 other cattle, 21,805 sheep, and 2,295 swine ; 7 manufactories of carriages and wag- ons, 2 of leather, 2 of clothing, 4 of saddlery and harness, 7 of woollen goods, and 20 saw mills. Capital, Dover. PISCICULTURE. See FISH CULTUBE. PISE, Charles Constantine, an American cler- gyman, born in Annapolis, Md., in 1802, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 26, 1866. He gradu- ated in Georgetown college, entered the society of Jesus, and went to study theology in the Roman college. After two years the death of his father compelled him to leave the society and return home. He taught rhetoric in Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg, till 1825, when he was ordained priest, and soon after- ward called to minister in the cathedral of Bal- timore. While there he published " History of the Church" (5 vols., Baltimore, 1827-'30), and " Father Rowland" (1829), his best work. He became successively assistant pastor of St. Patrick's, Washington, chaplain of the senate of the United States, and assistant in St. Pe- ter's church, New York, of which he became pastor in 1848. In 1849 he was appointed to St. Charles Borromeo, Brooklyn, and continued its pastor till his death. Besides the above, his most important works are : " Aletheia, or Let- ters on the Truth of the Catholic Doctrines" (New York, 1843) ; "St. Ignatius and his First Companions" (1845); and "Christianity and the Church "(1850). PISGAH, a mountain of Palestine, E. of the mouth of the Jordan. Its identification has been a matter of much doubt in modern times, though it was known to Eusebius and Jerome. The Bible associates it with Nebo, from the top of which Moses looked over the land of prom- ise. It has been thought that Nebo was the highest summit, and Pisgah the general name of the mountain ; and explorers have sought to identify the summit of Nebo. In 1806 Seetzen suggested that Jebel Attarus, about 12 m. S. of Heshbon, was Nebo, and in 1812 Burckhardt accepted this view as probably right, as did Irby and Mangles in 1818, though with some hesitation. Burckhardt and Robinson mention another summit, Jebel Osha, about 15 m. N. of a line drawn eastward from Jericho. But it has been objected that Osha is too far N. and Attarus too far S. for the Scriptural account, which places the mountain opposite Jericho. De Saulcy in 1863 identified Mt. Nebo with Jebel Neba (or Nebbeh), 4 or 5 m. S. W. of Heshbon. In 1864 the duke de Luynes passed over Jebel Neba without knowing its Arabic name, but, believing it to be Mt. Nebo, named it in his chart Jebel Musa, the mountain of Moses. The same year Tristram seems to have confirmed this identification. In 1867 Capt. Warren, of the English Palestine exploration fund, ascended Jebel Neba, which he describes as a hill on the edge of the swelling ground at the W. end of the Belka, about 2,670 ft. above the Mediterranean, while in the wady N. of it are springs known as Ay in Musa, the foun- tain of Moses. In 1873 Prof. John A. Paine, of the American Palestine exploration socie- ty, ascended Jebel Neba and the neighboring heights. He reports that the highest point of the ridge, 4 m. from Heshbon, is called Shefa Neba, the crest of Nebo, and is 2,725 ft. high. Westward from this crest is a cultivated de- pression called Sahl Neba, the plain of Nebo, W. of which rises Jebel Neba, a short round summit, 2,685 ft. high, and 1,100 ft. above Ayin Musa. This he identifies with Mt. Nebo ; but neither it nor the crest affords a prospect fully equal to that described in the Scripture. A mile and a quarter S. W. of Jebel Neba, how- ever, is a triple summit known as Jebel Sia- ghah, only 2,360 ft. high, but jutting out far to the west, and falling away so rapidly to the west, southwest, and northwest that it com- mands a more extended view than the higher summits E. of it. This S. W. point of Jebel Siaghah Prof. Paine identifies with Mt. Pisgah, and he describes it as overlooking two thirds of the Dead sea, the hill country of Judah, the buildings of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the hills about Nazareth, the Jordan valley, and Peraea. The Rev. John L. Porter visited the same re- gion in 1874, and reports that several neigh- boring peaks are now called by the common name Jebel Neba. PISIDIA, in ancient geography, an inland ter- ritory of Asia Minor, bounded N. by Phrygia, N. E. and E. by Isauria and Cilicia, S. by Pam- phylia, and S. W. and W. by Lycia and Phry- gia. From the S. slope of Mt. Taurus several rivers flowed into the Pamphylian gulf, among them the Cestrus and the Catarrhactes. On the north the mountain streams form salt lakes. Pisidia became a separate province on the di- vision of the Roman empire by Constantin< the Great, having previously been includ( either in Phrygia or Pamphylia. Olives, sail the gum storax, iris (a root from which p< fumes were manufactured), and the wine Amblada were produced. The chief toi were Antiochia, Sagalassus, and Selge, the mentioned being the most important. The in- habitants were mountaineers, never conquer* either by the Syrian kings or by the Romans although the latter held possession of some their chief towns. In the time of Strabo the} were ruled over by petty chiefs, and derive their subsistence mainly from plundering the neighbors. The mountainous parts of ancient