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crate stages of the river, great numbers ofsteam-boats arrive, and depart. Large con-tracts are continually ordered from all thetowns on the waters of the Ohio and Missis-sippi , for machinery, steam-boat castings, andthe various manufactures it produces. It issupplied with water by a high-pressure steam-engine of 64 horse power, which raises thewater 116 feet above the Alleghany river. Amillion and a half gallons of water can be rais-ed in 24 hours. These works went into ope-ration in 1828. The churches in this city area Baptist, Roman Catholic , Covenanters’, Se-ccders’, a Methodist church, German Lutheranchurch, Union church, Episcopal church , firstand second Presbyterian churches, Unitarianchurch, second Methodist church, and an Af-rican church, making a total of 13. The otherpublic buildings are the Western Universityof Pennsylvania, Pittsburg High School, Pitts-burg Exchange, Mansion House, and Hotel ,Lambdin’s Museum, the U, S. Bank, and thePittsburg Bank. There arc 11 large establish-ments of iron fbunderies, in which were man-ufactured from pigs, in 1630, 5,339 tons. Thereare six rolling mills and iron works with nailfactories attached, in which were manufactur-ed in the same year 7,050 tons of pigs intoblooms, and 2,805 tons into nails. There arefour large cotton factories, in the largest ofwhich are 10,000 spindles, spinning 1,400pounds of yarn weekly. There are two largeestablishments of glass works, and 270 otherlarge manufacturing establishments of a mis-cellaneous character. This city has immenseadvantages of artificial as well as natural watercommunications. The great Pennsylvania ca-nal, over 500 miles in length, terminates here.Another canal is laid out to connect it withLake Erie through Mcadville; and still a thirdis proposed to the mouth of Mahoning , whereit will connect with a branch of the Ohio andErie canal from its summit head.

PITTSFIELD , t. Rutland co. Vt. 40 m.NW. from Windsor. Pop. 505.

PITTSFIELD , t. Berkshire co. Mass. 6 m.,N. from Lenox, 36 ESE. from Albany , 40 W.from Northampton, and 136 W. from Boston .Pop. 3,570. It is watered by the Housatonnuc,is a pleasant and flourishing town, and a placeof considerable trade and manufactures. Itcontains 3 houses of public worship, 2 for Con-grcgationalists and 1 for Methodists, a bank, atown-house, an excellent female academy, aprinting-office from which is issued a weeklynewspaper, several woollen manufactories, amarble manufactory, a manufactory of small-arms, and a drum manufactory. Large num-bers of chaises, coaches, and wagons are madehere. Good marble is found here. The U. S. 1have barracks here sufficient to accommodate \2,000 men, and a hospital. Pittsfield is situ-ated in a very fertile tract of country, and is !one of the best agricultural towns in the state. IPITTSFIELD, t. Otsego co. N. Y. 15 m.WSW. from Cooperstown . Pop. 1,005.

PITTSFIELD , v. Somerset co. Me. 98 m.N. from Portland.

PITTSFORD, t. Rutland co. Vt . on the Ot-

ter Creek, 34 m. NW. from Windsor. Pop*2,005. Here is a valuable quarry of marble.

PITTSGROVE, t. Salem co. N. J. 28 m. S.from Philadelphia .

PITTSTON, t. Ivennebcck co. Me. on E.side of the Kennebeck, opposite Gardiner, 7 m.S. from Augusta , and 160 NNE. from BostonPop. 1,804.

PITTSTON, t. Hunterdon co. N. J. 58 m.NNE. from Philadelphia .

PITTSTON, t. Luzerne co. Pa .

PITTSTOWN, t. Rensselaer co. N. Y. NE,from Lansingburg. Pop. 3,702.

PITTSYLVANIA, C. H. Pittsylvania coVa. on Bannister river, 176 m. SW. fromRichmond .

PITTSYLVANIA, co. Va. bounded by NCarolina S. Henry and Franklin cos. W. Roan-oke river, or Bedford and Campbell N. and Hal-ifax E. Length 36 m. mean widtli 28. Pop.in 1820, 21,313; in 1830, 26,023. Chief town,Danville.

PLACENTIA, spacious bay on the E. coastof Newfoundland .

PLAIN, t. Wayne oo. Ohio, W. from Woos-ter . Pop. 1,263.

PLAIN, t. Franklin co. Ohio . Pop. 842.

PLAINFIELD, t. Washington co. Vt . wa-tered by the Onion river, 9 m. E. from Mont-pelier . Pop. 874.

PLAINFIELD, t. Sullivan co. N. H. on theConnecticut, 11 in. S. from Dartmouth College ,14 N. from Claremont, 55 NW. from Concord .Pop. 1,581. Union Academy, a well endowedseminary, is in this town. It has a principal,an assistant, and about 100 students. Thereare falls in the Connecticut at this place.

PLAINFIELD, t. Hampshire co. Mass. 21m. NW. from Northampton , and 110 W. fromBoston . Pop. 983.

PLAINFIELD, t. Windham co. Ct on E.side of tiie Quinebaug, 4 m. E. from Canter-bury, and 15 NE. from Norwich. Pop. 2,289.This is a pleasant and valuable town, and con-tains a respectable academy.

PLAINFIELD, t. Otsego co. N.Y. 15 m.NW. from Cooperstown, 81 W. from Albany .Pop. 1,626.

PLAINFIELD, t. Essex co. N. J.

PLAINFIELD, v. Coshocton co. Ohio , '<6m. NE. from Columbus .

PLAISTOW, t. Rockingham co. N. H. 12m. W. from Ncwburyport, and 28 SW. fromPortsmouth .

PLANE, t. Stark co. Ohio . Pop. 1,469,

PLAQUEMINE, outlet of the Mississippi ,117 m. above New Orleans , 36 above the effiuxof Lafourche, and 96 below thatof Atchafalaya.

PLAQUEMINE BEND, remarkable bendof the Mississippi, 70 m. below New Orleans .

PLAQUEMINES, parish, La . on both sidesof the Mississippi , near its mouth. Pop. 4,489.

PLAQUEMINES, fort, La. on the Missis-sippi, 43 m. below New Orleans . A small gar-rison is kept here for the purpose of examin-ing all vessels that pass.

PLATTE, Lai , r. Vt. which runs into LakeChamplain, at Shelburne .

PLATTE, Zkz, r. La. which rises in the