[Plymouth], Mass. 41N. 70W. First town f. in New England by the Pilgrim Fathers, 1620; bp. W. Bradford, second governor and historian of Plymouth, 1588-1657.
Plymouth, N. Carolina. 36N. 76W. Taken by Confederates, 1864.
Plymouth Harbour (Port St. Louis). 41N. 70W. Champlain in during second expedition to Canada, 1604-7; the 'Mayflower' enters, 1620.
Point Pleasant, Clermont Co., Ohio. 39N. 84W. Bp. Ulysses Simpson Grant, general, and 18th President of U.S. (1822-85).
[Popayan], Colombia. 2N. 76W. F. by Benalcazar, 1537; reached by Blasco Nuñez after his long and painful march pursued by Gonzalo Pizarro, 1545. (See Prescott, 'Peru,' op. cit.)
Pope's Creek, near Bridge Creek, Virginia Bp. George Washington, first President of U.S. (1732-99).
[Popocatepetl] ('smoking mountain'), volcano, Mexico. 18N. 98W. Ascent of by Diego Ordaz and Spaniards in the train of Cortés, 1519.
Port-au-Prince (now Port Republican), Haiti. 18N. 72W. F. by French, 1745; destroyed by earthquake, 1770; revolt of negroes, 1791.
[Portland], Maine. 43N. 70W. Bp. Longfellow (1807-82).
[Porto] (Puerto) Bello, Panama. 9N. 79W. Discovered by Columbus, 1502, who so named it; town f. 1584; sacked by Drake, 1595; the following year he died and was buried off; sacked by filibuster Morgan, 1668; and by English, 1680 and 1702; and by Admiral Vernon (Old Grog), 1739.