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tends to paralyse the action of the cardiac muscle. Upon the bodily heat it exercises a marked effect, decreasing the action of the heat-producing centre as well as increasing the dissipation of heat, and thus causing a marked fall in temperature. In toxic doses the blood becomes dark and blackish from the formation of methaemoglobin, and the urine is changed in colour from the passage of altered blood. The chief therapeutic use of phenacetin is as an antineuralgic, and it is of service in migraine, rheumatism of the sub-acute type, intercostal neuralgia and locomotor ataxia.

PHENACITE, a mineral consisting of beryllium orthosilicate, Be2SiO4, occasionally used as a gem-stone. It occurs as isolated crystals, which are rhombohedral with parallel-faced hemihedrism, and are either lenticular or prismatic in habit: the lenticular habit is determined by the development of faces of several obtuse rhombohedra and the absence of prism faces (the accompanying figure is a plan of such a crystal viewed along the triad, or principal, axis). There is no cleavage, and the fracture is conchoidal. The hardness is high, being 7-8; the specific gravity is 2.98. The crystals are sometimes perfectly colourless and transparent, but more often they are greyish or yellowish and only translucent; occasionally they are pale rose-red. In general appearance the mineral is not unlike quartz, for which indeed it had been mistaken; on this account it was named, by N. Nordenskiöld in 1833, from Gr. péva (a deceiver).

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Phenacite has long been known from the emerald and chrysoberyl mine on the Takovaya stream, near Ekaterinburg in the Urals, where large crystals occur in mica-schist. It is also found with topaz and amazon-stone in the granite of the Ilmen mountains in the southern Urals and of the Pike's Peak region in Colorado. Large crystals of prismatic habit have more recently been found in a felspar quarry at Kragerö in Norway. Framont near Schirmeck in Alsace is another well-known locality. Still larger crystals, measuring 12 in. in diameter and weighing 28 lb, have been found at Greenwood in Maine, but these are pseudomorphs of quartz after phenacite.

For gem purposes the stone is cut in the brilliant form, of which there are two fine examples, weighing 43 and 34 carats, in the British Museum. The indices of refraction (w=1.6540, €1.6527) are higher than those of quartz, beryl or topaz; a faceted phenacite is consequently rather brilliant and may sometimes be mistaken for diamond. (L. J. S.)

In the Puerco, or Lowest Eocene of North America the place of the above species was taken by Euprotogonia puercensis, an animal only half the size of Phenacodus primaevus, with the terminal joints of the limbs intermediate between hoofs and claws, and the first and fifth toes taking their full share in the support of the weight of the body. These two genera may be regarded as forming the earliest stages in the evolution of the horse, coming below Hyracotherium (see EQUIDAE).

As ancestors of the Artiodactyle section of the Ungulata, we may look to forms more or less closely related to the North American Lower Eocene genera Mioclaenus and Pantolestes, respectively typifying the families Mioclaenidae and Pantolestidae. They were five-toed, bunodont Condylarthra, with a decided approximation to the perissodactyle type in the structure of the feet. A third type of Condylarthra from the North American Lower Eocene is represented by the family Meniscotheriidae, including the genera Meniscotherium and Hyracops. These, it is suggested, may have been related to the ancestral Hyracoidea. Teeth and jaws probably referable to the Condylarthra have been obtained in European early Tertiary formations. All Ungulata probably originated from Condylarthra. See H. F. Osborn, Skeleton of Phenacodus primaevus; comparison with Euprotogonia, Bull. Amer. Mus. x. 159. (R. L.*)

PHENANTHRENE, C14H10, a hydrocarbon isomeric with anthracene, with which it occurs in the fraction of the coal tar distillate boiling between 270°-400° C. It may be separated from the anthracene oil by repeated fractional distillation, followed by fractional crystallization from alcohol (anthracene being the less soluble), and finally purified by oxidizing any residual anthracene with potassium bichromate and sulphuric acid (R. Anschutz and G. Schultz, Ann., 1879, 196, p. 35); or the two hydrocarbons may be separated by carbon bisulphide, in which anthracene is insoluble. It is formed when the vapours of toluene, stilbene, dibenzyl, ortho-ditolyl, or coumarone and benzene are passed through a red-hot tube; by distilling morphine with zinc dust; and, with anthracene, by the action of sodium on ortho-brombenzyl bromide (C. L. Jackson and J. F. White, Amer. Chem. Jour., 1880, 2, p. 391). It crystallizes in colourless plates or needles, which melt at 99° C. Its solutions in alcohol and ether have a faint blue fluorescence. When heated to 250° C. with red phosphorus and hydriodic acid it gives a hydride C14 H24. It is nitrated by nitric acid and sulphonated by sulphuric acid. With picric acid it forms a sparingly soluble picrate, which melts at 145° C. On the condition of phenanthrene in alcoholic solution see R. Behrend, Zeit. phys. Chem., 1892, 9, p. 405; 10, p. 265. Chromic acid oxidizes phenanthrene, first to phenanthrene-quinone, and then to diphenic acid, HO2C·C6H1·C6H4·CO2H.

PHENACODUS, one of the earliest and most primitive of the ungulate mammals, typifying the family Phenacodontidae Phenanthrene-quinone, [C6H4]2[CO]2, crystallizes in orange needles and the sub-order Condylarthra. The typical Phenacodus which melt at 198° C. It possesses the characteristic properties primaevus, of the Lower or Wasatch Eocene of North America, and a dioxime with hydroxylamine. It is non-volatile in steam, of a diketone, forming crystalline derivatives with sodium bisulphite was a relatively small ungulate, of slight build, with straight and is odourless. Sulphurous acid reduces it to the corresponding limbs each terminating in five complete toes, and walking in dihydroxy compound. It combines with ortho-diamines, in the the digitigrade fashion of the modern tapir. The middle toe presence of acetic acid, to form phenazines. was the largest, and the weight of the body was mainly supported On the constitution of phenanthrene see CHEMISTRY: § Organic. on this and the two adjoining digits, which appear to have been PHENAZINE (Azophenylene), C12H,N2, in organic chemistry, encased in hoofs, thus foreshadowing the tridactyle type the parent substance of many dyestuffs, e.g. the eurhodines, common in perissodactyle and certain extinct groups of ungulates. toluylene red, indulines and safranines. It is a dibenzoparaThe skull was small, with proportionately minute brain; and diazine having the formula given below. It may be obtained the arched back, strong lumbar vertebrae, long and powerful by distilling barium azobenzoate (A. Claus, Ber., 1873, 6, p. 723); tail, and comparatively feeble fore-quarters all proclaim kinship by passing aniline vapour over lead oxide, or by the oxidation with the primitive creodont Carnivora (see CREODONTA), from of dihydrophenazine, which is prepared by heating pyrocatechin which Phenacodus and its allies, and through them the more with orthophenylene diamine (C. Ris, Ber., 1886, 19, p. 2206). typical Ungulata, are probably derived. All the bones of the It is also formed when ortho-aminodiphenylamine is distilled limbs are separate, and those of the carpus and tarsus do not over lead peroxide (O. Fischer and E. Hepp). It crystallizes in alternate; that is to say, each one in the upper row is placed im- yellow needles which melt at 171° C., and are only sparingly mediately above the corresponding one in the row below. The soluble in alcohol. Sulphuric acid dissolves it, forming a deepfull series of forty-four teeth was developed; and the upper molars red solution. The more complex phenazines, such as the were short-crowned, or brachyodont, with six low cones, two naphthophenazines, naphthazines and naphthotolazines, may internal, two intermediate and two external, so that they were be prepared by condensing ortho-diamines with ortho-quinones of the typical primitive bunodont structure. In habits the (O. Hinsberg, Ann., 1887, 237, p. 340); by the oxidation of an animal was cursorial and herbivorous. or possibly carnivorous. I ortho-diamine in the presence of a-naphthol (O. Witt), and by

the decomposition of ortho-anilido-(-toluidido- &c.)-azo com- | anhydride formation also taking place between these hydroxyl pounds with dilute acids. If alkyl or aryl-ortho-diamines be groups. It dissolves in concentrated sulphuric acid with a yellowishgreen fluorescence. The rhodamines, which are closely related to used azonium bases are obtained. The azines are mostly the phthaleins, are formed by the condensation of the alkyl metayellow in colour, distil unchanged and are stable to oxidants. aminophenols with phthalic anhydride in the presence of sulphuric They add on alkyl iodides readily, forming alkyl azonium salts. acid. Their salts are fine red dyes.

By the entrance of amino or hydroxyl groups into the molecule dyestuffs are formed. The mono-amino derivatives or eurhodines are obtained when the arylmonamines are condensed with orthoamino zo compounds; by condensing quinone dichlorimide or para-nitrosodimethyl aniline with monamines containing a free para position, or by oxidizing ortho-hydroxydiaminodiphenylamines (R. Nietzki, Ber., 1895, 28, p. 2976; O. Fischer, ibid., 1896, 29, p. 1874). They are yellowish-red solids, which behave as weak bases, their salts undergoing hydrolytic dissociation in aqueous solution. When heated with concentrated hydrochloric acid the amino group is replaced by the hydroxyl group and the phenolic eurhodols are produced. The symmetrical diaminophenazine is the parent substance of the important dyestuff toluylene red or dimethyldiaminotoluphenazine. It is obtained by the oxidation of orthophenylene diamine with ferric chloride; when a mixture of para-aminodimethylaniline and meta-toluylenediamine is oxidized in the cold, toluylene blue, an indamine, being formed as an intermediate product and passing into the red when boiled; and also by the oxidation of dimethylparaphenylene diamine with metatoluylene diamine. It crystallizes in orange-red needles and its alcoholic solution fluoresces strongly. It dyes silk and mordanted cotton a fine scarlet. It is known commercially as neutral red. For the phenazonium salts

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PHENOLPHTHALEIN, in organic chemistry, a compound derived from phthalophenone, or diphenyl phthalide (formula I.), the anhydride of triphenyl-carbinol-ortho-carboxylic acid, which is obtained by condensing phthalyl chloride with benzene in the presence of aluminium chloride. The phthaleins are formed from this anhydride by the entrance of hydroxyl or amino groups into the two phenyl residues, and are prepared by condensing phenols with phthalic anhydride, phenol itself giving rise to phenolphthalein (formula II.) together with a small quantity of fluorane (formula III.), whilst resorcin under similar conditions yields fluorescein (q.v.). The phthaleins on reduction yield phthalines, which are derivatives of triphenylmethane carboxylic acid; these reduction products are colourless and may be regarded as the leuco-compounds of the phthaleins, thus phenolphthalein itself gives phenolphthaline (formula IV.). Dehydrating agents usually convert the phenolphthalines into anthraquinone derivatives.

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Phenolphthalein is obtained when phenol and phthalic anhydride are heated with concentrated sulphuric acid. It crystallizes in colourless crusts and is nearly insoluble in water, but dissolves in dilute solutions of the caustic alkalis with a fine red colour, being reprecipitated from these solutions by the addition of mineral acid. It dissolves in concentrated caustic alkalis to a colourless solution which probably contains salts of a non-quinonoid character. This difference in behaviour has led to considerable discussion (see H. Meyer, Monats., 1899, 20, p. 337; R. Meyer, Ber., 1903, 36, p. 2949; A. G. Perkin and Green, Jour. Chem. Soc., 1904, p. 398). On fusion with caustic alkali, phenolphthalein yields benzoic acid and para-dihydroxybenzophenone, which shows that in the original condensation the phthalic acid residue has taken the para position to the hydroxyl groups of the phenol.

Fluorane is a product of the condensation of the phthalic acid residue in the ortho position to the hydroxyl groups of the phenol,

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PHENOMENON (Gr. φαινόμενον, a thing seen, from φαίνεσθαι, to appear), in ordinary language a thing, process, event, &c., observed by the senses. Thus the rising of the sun, a thunderstorm, an earthquake are natural "phenomena." From this springs the incorrect colloquial sense, something out of the common, an event which especially strikes the attention; hence such phrases as "phenomenal " activity. In Greek philosophy phenomena are the changing objects of the senses as opposed to essences (τà ǎvтa) which are one and permanent, and are therefore regarded as being more real, the objects of reason rather than of senses which are "bad witnesses." In modern philosophy the phenomenon is neither the thing-in-itself," nor the noumenon (q.v.) or object of pure thought, but the thingin-itself as it appears to the mind in sensation (see especially KANT; and METAPHYSICS). In this sense the subjective character is of prime importance. Among derivative terms are "Phenomenalism" and "Phenomenology." Phenomenalism is either (1) the doctrine that there can be no knowledge except by phenomena, i.e. sense-given data, or (2) the doctrine that all known things are phenomena, i.e. that there are no " things-inthemselves.” Phenomenology" is the science of phenomena: every special science has a special section in which its particular phenomena are described. The term was first used in English in the 3rd edition of the Ency. Brit. in the article "Philosophy " by J. Robison. Kant has a special use of the term for that part of the Metaphysic of Nature which considers motion and rest as predicates of a judgment about things.

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PHERECRATES, Greek poet of the Old Attic Comedy, was a contemporary of Cratinus, Crates and Aristophanes. At first an actor, he seems to have gained a prize for a play in 438 B.C. The only other ascertained date in his life is 420, when he produced his play The Wild Men. Like Crates, whom he imitated, he abandoned personal satire for more general themes, although in some of the fragments of his plays we find him attacking Alcibiades and others. He was especially famed for his inventive imagination, and the elegance and purity of his diction are attested by the epithet ȧTTIKOTATOs (most Attic) applied to him by Athenaeus and the sophist Phrynichus. He was the inventor of a new metre, called after him Pherecratean, which frequently occurs in the choruses of Greek tragedies and in Horace.

A considerable number of fragments from his 16 (or 13) plays has been preserved, collected in T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, i. (1880), and A. Meineke, Poetarum Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1855).

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PHERECYDES OF LEROS, Greek mythographer, fl. c. 454 He is probably identical with Pherecydes of Athens, although the two are distinguished by Suïdas (also by I. Lipsius, Quaestiones logographicae, 1886). He seems to have been born in the island of Leros, and to have been called an Athenian because he spent the greater part of his life and wrote his great work there. Of his treatises, On Leros, On Iphigencia, On the Festivals of Dionysus, nothing remains; but numerous fragments of his genealogies of the gods and heroes, variously called Ιστορίαι, Γενεαλογίαι, Αὐτοχθόνες, in ten books, written in the Ionic dialect, have been preserved (see C. W. Müller's Frag. hist. graec., vol. i. pp. xxxiv., 70). He modified the legends, not with a view to rationalizing them, but rather to adjust them to popular beliefs. He cannot, therefore, be classed with Hecataeus, whose method was far more scientific.

See C. Lütke, Pherecydea (diss. Göttingen, 1893); W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898); and specially H. Bertsch, Pherekydeische Studien (1898).

philosophical theologian), flourished during the 6th century B.C. PHERECYDES OF SYROS, Greek philosopher (or rather He was sometimes reckoned one of the Seven Wise Men, and is said to have been the teacher of Pythagoras. With the possible

exception of Cadmus (q.v.) of Miletus, he was the first Greek prose-writer. He belonged to the circle of Peisistratus at Athens, and was the founder of an Orphic community. He is characterized as "one of the earliest representatives of a half-critical, half-credulous eclecticism" (Gomperz). He was credited with having originated the doctrine of metempsychosis (q.v.), while Cicero and Augustine assert that he was the first to teach the immortality of the soul. Of his astronomical studies he left a proof in the "heliotropion," a cave at Syros which served to determine the annual turning-point of the sun, like the grotto of Posillipo (Posilipo, Posilippo) at Naples, and was one of the sights of the island.

In his cosmogonic treatise on nature and the gods, called ПEvτéμUXOS (Preller's correction of Suïdas, who has ETTάμUXOS) from the five elementary or original principles (aether, fire, air, water, earth; Gomperz substitutes smoke and darkness for aether and earth), he enunciated a system in which science, allegory and mythology were blended. In the beginning were Chronos, the principle of time; Zeus (Zas), the principle of life; and Chthonie, the earth goddess. Chronos begat fire, air and water, and from these three sprang numerous other gods. Smoke and darkness appear in a later tradition. A fragment of the "sacred marriage" of Zas and Chthonie was found on an Egyptian papyrus at the end of the 19th century.

See H. Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1903); also O. Kern, De Orphei, Epimenidis, Pherecydis theogoniis (1888); D. Speliotopoulos, Hepi Depeκúdov TOû Zupiv (Athens, 1890); T. Gomperz, Greek Thinkers (Eng. trans.), i. 85; B. P. Grenfell, New Classical Fragments (1897); H. Weil, Etudes sur l'antiquité grecque (1900).

PHIGALIA, or PHIGALEIA (Þáλia or Piyaλeía; mod. Pavlitsa), an ancient Greek city in the south-west angle of Arcadia, situated on an elevated rocky site, among some of the highest mountains in the Peloponnesus-the most conspicuous being Mt Cotylium and Mt Elasum; the identification of the latter is uncertain. In 659 B.C. Phigalia was taken by the Lacedaemonians, but soon after recovered its independence by the help of the Orasthasians. During the struggle between Achaeans and Aetolians in 221 B.C. it was held by Dorimachus, who left it on the approach of Philip V. of Macedon. In common with the other cities of Arcadia, it appears from Strabo to have fallen into utter decay under the Roman rule. Several curious cults were preserved near Phigalia, including that of the fishtailed goddess Eurynome and the Black Demeter with a horse's head, whose image was renewed by Onatas. Notices of it in Greek history are rare and scanty. Though its existing ruins and the description of Pausanias show it to have been a place of considerable strength and importance, no autonomous coins of Phigalia are known. Nothing remains above ground of the temples of Artemis or Dionysus and the numerous statues and other works of art which existed at the time of Pausanias's visit, about A.D. 170. A great part of the city wall, built in fine Hellenic masonry, partly polygonal and partly isodomous, and a large square central fortress with a circular projecting tower, are the only remains now traceable at least without the aid of excavation. The walls, once nearly 2 m. in circuit, are strongly placed on rocks, which slope down to the little river Neda.

One very important monument still exists in a fairly perfect state; this is a temple dedicated to Apollo Epicurius (the Preserver), built, not at Phigalia itself, but at Bassae, 5 or 6 m. away, on the slope of Mt Cotylium; it commemorates the aid rendered by Apollo in stopping a plague which in the 5th century B.C. was devastating Phigalia. This temple is mentioned by Pausanias (viii. 41) as being (next to that of Tegea) the finest in the Peloponnesus, "from the beauty of its stone and the symmetry of its proportions." It was designed by Ictinus, who, with Callicrates, was joint architect of the Parthenon at Athens.

Though visited by Chandler, Dodwell, Gell, and other English travellers, the temple was neither explored nor measured till 1811-1812, when C. R. Cockerell and some other archaeologists spent several months in making excavations there. After nearly fifty years' delay, Professor Cockerell published the results of these labours, as well as of his previous work at Aegina, in Temples of Aegina and Bassae (1860), one of the most careful

and beautifully illustrated archaeological works produced. The labours of Cockerell and his companions were richly rewarded; not only were sufficient remains of the architectural features discovered to show clearly the whole design, but the internal sculptured frieze of the cella was found almost perfect. This and other fragments of its sculpture are now in the British Museum. The colonnade of the temple has been recently restored by the Greek authorities.

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The figure shows the plan of the temple, which is of the Doric order,. but has an internal arrangement of its cella unlike that of any other known temple. It stands on an elevated and partly artificial plateau, which commands an extensive view of the oak-clad mountains of Arcadia, reaching away to the blue Unlike other Doric temples, which usually stand east and west, this is placed north and south; but it has a side entrance on the east. It is its flanks; thirty-four out of the hexastyle, with fifteen columns on thirty-eight columns of the peristyle are still standing, with the greater part of their architrave, but the rest of the entablature and both pediments have fallen, together with the greater part of the internal columns of the cella. It will be seen from the plan that these are very strangely placed, apparently without symmetry, as regards the interior, though they are set regularly opposite the voids in the peristyle.

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Plan of the Temple at Bassae.

With the exception of one at the south end, which is Corinthian, the internal columns are of the Ionic order, and are engaged with the cellawall, forming a series of recesses, which may have been designed to contain statues. Another peculiarity of this interior is that these columns reach to the top of the cella in one order, not in two ranges of columns, one over the other, as was the usual Doric fashion. These inner columns carried an Ionic entablature, of which the frieze now in the British Museum formed a part. The pediments and external metopes of the peristyle appear to have contained no sculpture, but the metopes within the peristyle on the exterior of the cella had sculptured subjects; only a few fragments of these were, however, discovered. The position occupied by the great statue of Apollo is a difficult problem. Cockerell, with much probability, places it in the southern portion of the cella, facing the eastern side door, so that it would be lighted up by the rays of the rising sun. The main entrance is at the northern end through the pronaos, once defended by a door in the end of the cella and a metal screen, of which traces were found on the two columns of the pronaos. proportions of the fronts resemble those of the Theseum at Athens, There was no door between the posticum and the cella. The general except that the entablature is less massive, the columns thicker, and the diminution less all proportionally speaking. In plan the temple is long in proportion to its width-measuring, on the top of the stylobate, 125 ft. 7 in. by 48 ft. 2 in., while the Theseum (built probably half a century earlier) is about 104 ft. 2 in. by 45 ft. 2 in.

The material of which the temple is built is a fine grey limestone (once covered with painted stucco), except the roof-tiles, the capitals of the cella columns, the architraves, the lacunaria (ceilings) of the posticum and pronaos, and the sculpture, all of which are of white marble. The roof-tiles, specially noticed by Pausanias, are remarkable for their size, workmanship, and the beauty of the Parian marble of which they are made. They measure 2 ft. I in. by 3 ft. 6 in., and are fitted together in the most careful and ingenious manner. Unlike those of the Parthenon and the temple of Aegina, the apuoi or "jointtiles are worked out of the same piece of marble as the flat ones, for the sake of more perfect fitting and greater security against wet. Traces of painting on various architectural members were found by Cockerell, but they were too much faded for the colours to be fret, the honeysuckle, and the egg and dart. distinguished. The designs are the usual Greek patterns-the

The sculpture is of the greatest interest, as being designed to decorate one of the finest buildings in the Peloponnesus in the latter half of the 5th century B.C.; see Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Sculpture, vol. i The frieze, now in the British Museum, is complete; it is nearly 101 ft. long by 2 ft. high, carved in relief on twenty-three slabs of marble 4 to 5 in. thick. The subjects are the battle of the Lapithac and the Centaurs, and that between the Amazons and the Greeks, the

two favourite subjects in Greek plastic art of the best period. They are designed with wonderful fertility of invention, and life-like realism and spirit; the composition is arranged so as to form a series of diagonal lines or zigzags M, thus forming a pleasing contrast to the unbroken horizontal lines of the cornice and architrave. The various groups are skilfully united together by some dominant line or action, so that the whole subject forms one unbroken composition.

The relief is very high, more than 34 in. in the most salient parts, and the whole treatment is quite opposite to that of the Parthenon frieze, which is a very superior work of art to that at Bassae. Many of the limbs are quite detached from the ground; the drill has been largely used to emphasize certain shadows, and in many places, for want of due calculation, the sculptor has had to cut into the flat background behind the figures. From this it would appear that no finished clay-model was prepared, but that the relief was sculptured with only the help of a drawing. The point of sight, more than 20 ft. below the bottom of the frieze, and the direction in which the light fell on it have evidently been carefully considered. Many parts, invisible from below, are left comparatively rough. The workmanship throughout is unequal, and the hands of several sculptors can be detected. On the whole, the execution is not equal to the beauty of the design, and the whole frieze is somewhat marred by an evident desire to produce the maximum of effect with the least possible amount of labour-very different from the almost gem-like finish of the Parthenon frieze. Even the design is inferior to the Athenian one; most of the figures are ungracefully short in their proportions, and there is a great want of refined beauty in many of the female hands and faces. It is in the fire of its varied action and its subtlety of expression that this sculpture most excels. The noble movements of the heroic Greeks form a striking contrast to the feminine weakness of the wounded Amazons, or the struggles with teeth and hoofs of the brutish Centaurs; the group of Apollo and Artemis in their chariot is full of grace and dignified power. The marble in which this frieze is sculptured is somewhat coarse and crystalline; the slabs appear not to have been built into their place but fixed afterwards, with the aid of two bronze bolts driven through Of the metopes, which were 2 ft. 8 in. square, only one exists nearly complete, with eleven fragments; the one almost perfect has a relief of a nude warrior, with floating drapery, overcoming a long-haired bearded man, who sinks vanquished at his feet. The relief of these is rather less than that of the frieze figures, and the In addition to the works mentioned in the text, see Leake, Morea (i. 490 and ii. 319; Curtius, Peloponnesos. i. 319; Ross, Reisen in Peloponnesos; Stackelberg, Der Apollo-Tempel zu Bassae (1826); Lenormant, Bas-reliefs du Parthenon et de Phigalie (1834); and Histories of Sculpture mentioned under GREEK Art. (J. H. M.; E. GR.) PHILADELPHIA, the Greek name (1) of a city in Palestine in the land of Ammon (see AMMONITES), and (2) of a city so-called in honour of Attalus II. of Pergamum, the modern Ala-Shehr (q.v.).

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PHILADELPHIA, the third city in population in the United States, the chief city of Pennsylvania, and a port of entry, co-extensive with Philadelphia county, extending W. from the Delaware river beyond the Schuylkill River, and from below the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers N.E. about 23 m. along the Delaware river and Poquessing Creek. Independence Hall, which is a few squares east by south of the city hall, is in 39° 56′ 57.5′′ N. and 75° 8′ 54.75" W. The port is about 102 m. from the Atlantic Ocean, and the city hall is 90 m. by rail S.S.W. of New York and 135 m. N.E. of Washington. The city has an area of 132.7 sq. m. At the southern extremity are lowlands protected by dikes from the tide; the business centre between the rivers is about 40 ft. higher but level; the district west of the Schuylkill is generally rolling; and in the upper district the surface rises from the Delaware toward the northwest until in the extreme north-west is a picturesque district overlooking Wissahickon Creek from hills exceeding 400 ft. in height.

Population. When the first United States census was taken, in 1790, Philadelphia was the second largest city in the Union, and had a population of 28,522. It held this rank until 1830, when it was exceeded in size by Baltimore as well as by New York. In 1850 it was smaller also than Boston; but in 1854 the Consolidation Act extended its boundaries so as to include all Philadelphia county and in 1860 the city had risen again to second rank. This rank it held until 1890 when, although its population had grown to 1,046,964, it was 50,000 less than that of Chicago. In 1900, with a population of 1,293,679, it

was still farther behind both New York and Chicago. In 1900, of the total population, 998,357, or 77.18%, were native-born, as against only 63% native-born in New York and 65.43% | native-born in Chicago. Of Philadelphia's native-born white population, however, 414,093, or 44.24%, were of foreignborn parentage. The foreign-born population included 98,427 born in Ireland, 71,319 born in Germany, 36,752 born in England, 28,951 born in Russia (largely Hebrews), 17,830 born in Italy, 8479 born in Scotland and 5154 born in Austria; and the coloured consisted of 62,613 negroes, 1165 Chinese, 234 Indians and 12 Japanese. In 1910 the population was 1,549, 008. Streets. With the exception of a limited number of diagonal thoroughfares and of streets laid out in outlying districts in conformity with the natural contour of the ground the plan of the city is regular. Market Street-which Penn called High Street-is the principal thoroughfare east and west, Broad Street the principal thoroughfare north and south, and these streets intersect at right angles at City Hall Square in the business centre. The streets parallel with Broad are numbered from First or Front Street west from the Delaware River to Sixty-Third Street, taking the prefix " North" north of Market Street and the prefix South "south of it; the streets parallel with Market are named mostly from trees and from the governors and counties of Pennsylvania.

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The wholesale district is centred at the east end of Market Street near the Delaware river. The best retail shops are farther west on the south side of Chestnut Street and on Market and Arch streets. Most of the leading banks and trust companies are on Chestnut Street and on Third Street between Chestnut and Walnut streets. Several of the larger office buildings and the stations of the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & Reading railways are in the vicinity of the city hall; here too, are the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The large textile mills, the great coal wharves and the Cramp Ship-Yards are to the north-east along the Delaware, and in districts west of these are the leading manufactories of iron and steel. There are large sugar refineries in the south-eastern part of the city. Rittenhouse Square, a short distance south-west of the city hall, is the centre of the old aristocratic residential district, and the south side of Walnut Street between Fourteenth and Nineteenth streets is a fashionable parade. There are fine residences on North Broad Street and on some of the streets crossing it, and many beautiful villas in the picturesque suburbs of the north-west. The most congested tenements, occupied largely by Italians, Hebrews and negroes, are along the alleys between the rivers and south of Market Street, often in the rear of some of the best of the older residences.

The principal structure is the city hall (or " Public Buildings ") one of the largest buildings in the world in ground space (4 acres). It rises 548 ft. to the top of a colossal bronze statue (37 ft. high) of William Penn (by Alexander Calder) surmounting the tower. It accommodates the state and county courts as well as the municipal and county offices. The foundation stone was laid in August 1872. On its first floor is Joseph A. Bailly's statue of Washington, which was erected in front of Independence Hall in 1869. About the Public Buildings are statues of Generals McClellan and Reynolds, President McKinley, and Joseph Leidy and St Gaudens's "Pilgrim.' On all sides are great buildings: on the north the masonic temple (1868-1873); on the south the stately Betz Building; on the west the enormous Broad Street station of the Pennsylvania railway. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Oddfellows' Temple are among other notable buildings in the vicinity. The post office, facing Ninth Street and extending from Market Street to Chestnut Street, was opened in 1884; in front is a seated statue of Benjamin Franklin, by John J. Boyle. The mint is at the corner of Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets. The custom-house, on Chestnut Street, was designed by William Strickland (1787-1854), in his day the leading American architect. It was modelled after the Parthenon of Athens, was built for the Second United States Bank, was completed in 1824, and was put to its present use in 1845. Other prominent buildings of

which Strickland was the architect are the stock exchange, | far from this house is Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal), St Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, St Stephen's Church, the a fine colonial edifice designed mainly by Dr John Kearsley almshouse and the United States Naval Asylum. The main (1684-1772). The corner stone was laid in 1727, but the steeple, building of Girard College (on Girard Avenue, between North in part designed by Benjamin Franklin and containing a famous 19th and North 25th streets), of which Thomas Ustick Walter chime of eight bells, was not completed until 1754. The (1804-1887), a pupil of Strickland's, was the architect, is one of interior was restored to its ancient character in 1882, the pews the finest specimens of pure Greek architecture in America. Near of Washington and Franklin are preserved, and a set of comthe Schuylkill river, in West Philadelphia, are the buildings of munion plate presented to the church by Queen Anne in 1708 the university of Pennsylvania. Its free museum of science and is used on great occasions. In the churchyard are the graves art, at South 23rd and Spruce, on the opposite side of the river, of Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Brigadier-General John was built from the designs of Walter Cope, Frank Miles Day Forbes, John Penn, Peyton Randolph, Francis Hopkinson and and Wilson Eyre, and its north-western part was first opened Benjamin Rush. St Peter's, the second Protestant Episcopal in 1899. Tall steel-frame structures, of which the Betz Building, Church in the city, has a massive tower and a simple spire; completed in 1893, was the first, have become numerous. within are the original pews. In the south-east part of the city Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, east of near the Delaware is the ivy-clad Old Swedes' Church, built of Logan Square, was begun in 1846 and was eighteen years in brick in 1698-1700. The house which William Penn built building. The Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church is about 1683 for his daughter Letitia was removed to Fairmount one of the most handsome churches in the city. The South Park and rebuilt in 1883. In Germantown (q.v.), a suburb Memorial Church of the Advocate (1897), on North 18th and which was annexed in 1854, are several other historic buildings. Diamond streets, is a reproduction on a smaller scale of Amiens The dominant feature of the domestic architecture is the long Cathedral. rows, in street after street, of plain two-storey or three-storey dwellings of red ("Philadelphia ") pressed brick with white marble steps and trimmings, and with white or green shutters, each intended for one family.

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Perhaps the most famous historical monument in the United States is Independence Hall, on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, designed for the state house by Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676-1741), speaker of the assembly, and was used for that purpose until 1799. The foundations were laid in 1731 and the main building was ready for occupancy in 1735, although the entire building was not completed until 1751. The steeple was taken down in 1774 but was restored by Strickland in 1828, and further restorations of the building to its original condition were effected later. In the east room on the first floor of this building the second Continental Congress met on the 10th of May 1775, George Washington was chosen commander-in-chief of the Continental army on the 15th of June 1775, and the Declaration of Independence was adopted on the 4th of July 1776. The room contains much of the furniture of those days, and on its walls are portraits of forty-five of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration and a portrait of Washington by Peale. At the head of the stairway is the famous Liberty bell, which bears the inscription," Proclaim liberty through all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof " and is supposed (without adequate evidence) to have been the first bell to announce the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was cast in England in 1752, was cracked soon after it was brought to America, was recast with more copper in Philadelphia, and was cracked again in 1835 while being tolled in memory of Chief Justice John Marshall, and on the 22nd of February 1843 this crack was so increased as nearly to destroy its sound. On the second floor is the original of the charter which William Penn granted to the city in 1701 and the painting of Penn's treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West. The building has been set apart by the city, which purchased it from the state in 1816, as a museum of historical relics. On the north-west corner of Independence Square is old Congress hall, in which Congress sat from 1790 to 1800, and in which Washington was inaugurated in 1793 and Adams in 1797. At the north-east corner is the old city-hall, on the second floor of which the Supreme Court of the United States sat from 1791 to 1900. A short distance east of Independence Square in Carpenters' Hall, in which the first continental congress assembled on the 5th of September 1774 and in which the national convention in 1787 framed the present constitution of the United States; the building was also the headquarters of the Pennsylvania committee of correspondence, the basement was used as a magazine for ammunition during the War of Independence, and from 1791 to 1797 the whole of it was occupied by the First United States Bank. The Carpenters' Company (established in 1724) erected the building in 1770, and since 1857 has preserved it wholly for its historic associations. On Arch Street near the Delaware is preserved as a national monument the house in which Betsy Ross, in 1777, made what has been called the first United States flag, in accordance with the resolution of Congress of the 14th of June. Not ❘ (1871; reorganized in 1888 and 1906).

Parks.-Fairmount Park extends along both banks of the SchuylWissahickon Creek it continues up the latter stream through a kill for about 5 m. and from the confluence of the Schuylkill and romantic glen for 6 m. Its area is about 3418 acres. Five acres of an estate belonging to Robert Morris during the War of Independence and known as "Fair Mount," or "The Hills," were purchased a city waterworks and for park purposes by the municipality for in 1812, and from this beginning the park grew to its present dimensions by purchases and gifts. The principal buildings in the park are: the McPherson mansion, once the property of Benedict Arnold and in October 1780 confiscated by the committee of safety; the by the notables of the Revolutionary and early national period; Peters (or Belmont) Mansion, built in 1745 and much frequented the birth-place of David Rittenhouse, the astronomer, and a monastery of the German pietists, both on the banks of Wissahickon; and memorial hall and horticultural hall, both survivals of the centennial exhibition of 1876. On Lemon Hill, near the south end of the park, stands the Robert Morris mansion; in the vicinity is the cabin which was General U. S. Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia, during the winter of 1864-1865. Near the Columbia Avenue entrance to the park and near the East Park Reservoir are of Mrs Sarah A. Smith (d. 1895). At the Green Street entrance is the children's playhouse and playground, endowed by the will an imposing monument to Washington, designed by Rudolph Siemering and erected by the Society of the Cincinnati in 1896-1897, with a bronze equestrian statue. The Smith Memorial entrance, white granite with bronze statues, was erected in memory of the officers of the Civil War. The park also contains a monument to Lincoln by Randolph Rogers; an equestrian statue of Grant by Daniel Chester French and Edward C. Potter; an equestrian statue of MajorGeneral James Gordon Meade by Alexander Milne Calder; an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc by Emmanuel Fremiet; an heroic bust of James A. Garfield by Augustus St Gaudens; statues of Columbus, Humboldt, Schiller and Goethe; a Tam O'Shanter group of four figures in red sandstone by James Thom; John J. Boyle's Stone Age in America "; Cyrus Edwin Dallin's "Medicine Man "; Zoological Gardens); Albert Wolff's "Lion Fighter"; Auguste Wilhelm Wolff's Wounded Lioness (at the entrance to the Nicolas Cain's "Lioness bringing a Wild Boar to her Cubs "; Edward Kemeys's "Hudson Bay Wolves "; Frederick Remington's "Cow Boy"; and several artistic fountains, and a Japanese temple-gate. In the down-town district, Franklin, Washington, Rittenhouse and Logan squares, equidistant from the city-hall, have been reserved for public parks from the founding of the city; in Rittenhouse Square is the bronze "Lion and Serpent "of A. L. Barye. In Clarence H. Clark Park, West Philadelphia, is Frank Edwin Elwell's group "Dickens and Little Nell." In Broad and Spring Garden streets opposite the Baldwin Locomotive Works is Herbert Adams's statue of Matthias William Baldwin (1795-1866), founder of the works. Close to the bank of the Delaware, some distance N.N.E. of the city-hall, is the small Penn Treaty Park with a monument to mark the site of the great elm tree under which Penn, according to tradition, negotiated his treaty with the Indians in 1683. In the south-west part of the city, along the Schuylkill, is Bartram's botanical garden (27 acres), which the city 1 Many of the statues and other works of art in Fairmount and other parks are the gift of the Fairmount Park Art Association

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