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* POMERANIA. 226 POMO. line. In 1341 tlip dmliics of hJtcttin and Woljrast were erected, to wliiih were Ireiiuciitly given the naiiii's of Hither Poinerania and Karthcr I'onier- ania rei^pcctively. The line of Slavic dukes died out in l(i.{7. but in the Treaty of Westphalia, in lti4H, lirandcnliur^' liail to content herself with the jsrcatcr pari of Farther Pomerania. Hither roinerania and some districts of Kartlier Pomer- ania fioiu}.' to Sweden. The Prussian possessions in Pomerania were rounded out by the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720, when Sweden relinquished part of Hither Pomerania, and in 1815 Prussia acquired the rest of Swedish Pomerania. POMERANIAN DOG. See SiiEEi-Doo. POMEKOY, pruii'f roi. A city and the eounty- ecat of Mcijjfs County. Ohio, 1.1,'{ miles south- east of Columbus; on the Ohio River and on the Hockiujr 'a!le.v Railroad. It is in a rc-iioii pos- scssiiifr valuable deposits of salt and bituminous coal, and has no little conimereial and industrial imiiortanee. It is particularly noted for the i)roduction of calcium and bromine. There are also extensive salt works, steel hoop works, foundries and mai'liine shops, furniture and church or- gan factories, Hour and lumlier mills, iJ^'X'^, etc. The government is administered by a mayor, elected bienniall,v, and a uni- cameral council. Poineroy was settled in 1810, and was first incorporated in 1840. Population, in 1890, 4721!; in lUOO, 4(:i9. POMEROY, John Xobton (1828-85). An American lawyer and author, born in New York. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1847, and was admitted to the State bar in 1851. He then practiced law in Rochester until 18(14, and from 18(4 to 18(18 was professor of law and politii'al science and dean of the law faculty of the I'ni- versitv of New York. From lS(i9 until 1878 he again ])racticed law in Rochester, and from 1878 until 1885 was jirofessor of municipal law in the Universit.y of California. He published editions, with notes, of Sedgwick's Htatiitorii and Coiisti- iuliuniil Law (1874), and of Archibold's Criminal Line (1876), and wrote several works, including: Introduction to Munitijiiil Line (1805); Intro- duction to the ConstitutioiHi! Linm of the United States (1808, nth ed., 1880); and Treatises on the J.ani of Uiiiarian h'iykts (1887). POMEROY, Setii (1706-77). An American soldier, born in Northampton, Mass. He early became a blacksmith and accunuilatcd pro])ert,v, but was ehielly interested in military ail'airs. He was major of the Fourth Massachusetts Regi- ment in the successful attack upon Louisburg in 1745, and the next year was engaged against the Indians on the frontier. In the French and In- dian War he was licntenant-cohmel in the ex- pedition against Crown Point. When Col. Eph- raim Williams was killed at Lake George, Sep- tember 8, 1755, Pomeroy took command of the regiment and ca))tured the French commander. Baron Dieskau. Promoted to be colonel in 1757. he marched to the relief of Fort William Henry, and in 1700 he commanded the frontier forts. He was elected to the First Provincial Congress in 1774, was one of the three men put in charge of the military forces of the colony by that bod.v, and was also colonel of the l-irst Hamp- shire Regiment, In 1775 he was again a mem- ber of the Provincial Congress, drilled the mili- tia, and is said to have planned the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. In the battle of RuMk<'r Hill Pomeroy fought at first as a private, l)ut during a part of the day connnandcd a battalion. On June 22d he was nominated to be one of the first eight brigadiers named liy Congress, but, on account of his adv;inced age, did not accept. In the latter part of 1770, at Washington's personal solicitation, he joined General McDougal at Peekskill, but died of pleurisy, Februar.y 17, 1777, before any active service. His journal, iniblished in Trumbull's Iliatory of Northnnip- ton (2 vols., Northampton. 11)02), contains much interesting matter concerning the colonial wars. POMFRET (probably corrupted from Port. priihho, iiiiniiiii, pomfrct). The name in Hernnula of a fish {lirania I}aii) allied to the moonfish and harvest-fish, but representing a singular THE POMFRET {lirtimii Rail). family whose three or four species are of almost cosmopolitan distribution. West Indian local names are 'castagnole' and 'rondanin.' They arc large, dun-eolore<l jielagic fishes, which roam widel.y, descend to great depths, and are good to eat. The yoing ditlcr decidcdl,y from the adults. Consult .lordan and Evermann. Fif:hcs of North and Middle America (Washington, 1898). POM'FRET, .John (1G67-1702). An English poet, son of Thomas Pomfret, vicar of Luton, in Rerksbire. He was educated at Queen's College, Candiridge, and, taking orders in the Church of England, became rector of Maulden, in Bedford- shire (1095), and of Millbrook, in the same county (1702), He published Poems on Several Occasions (1099), containing an elegy on the death of Queen Marv, and The Choice (1700), which was admired by Dr. .Tohnson. Besides these he wrote A Pros/icet of Death, an Ode (1700); Iteason, a Poem (1700) ; and UisecUiinji Poems (1702). Pomfret's couplets were praised for their correctness. For poems and memoir, con- sult Johnson's English Poets, vol. xxi. (London, 1779). PO'MO (probably, earth people, indigenes). A group of small tribes constituting a distinct lin- guistic stock known as the Kulanapan. formerly dwelling in northwestern California. When first described by Gibbs in 1853 they were very nu- merous, with villages along every stream, but they are now nearly extinct. They were described in 1870 by Powers, in his Trihes of California, as a peaceful, good-tempered, and easy-going people, rather below the intellectual standard of their more warlike neighbors. They built conical dwellings of poles and bark for their winter res-