Penny Post, Origin of the, 47 Pennsylvania Journal, 63 Perfumes, 253 Persecution, 430 ---- in the Reign of Queen Mary, 587 Perseverance rewarded by Fortune, 287 Persia, Drinking Bouts in, 547 Personal Charms Disclaimed, 118 Peru, Condor in, 170 Peruvian Bark, 51 Pest-house, during the Plague, in Tothill Fields, 573 Pestilence, The Black, 402 Peter the Great at Zaandam, 544 Physic, A Friend to, 267 Physick for the Poor, Choice Receipts for, 117 Pigeon Catching near Naples, 437 Pig, Roast, Advertisement of, in 1726, 46 Pike, An Old, 667 Pilgrim Fathers, Chair belonging to, 186 Pillory for Eating Flesh in Lent, 68 Plague in England, The, 183 ---- Corpse Bearers during the, 283 Plantagenets, Yellow Hair in the Time, 103 Plate, Use of, in the time of Henry VIII., 523 Platypus, the Duck-billed, 273 Playbill, Curious, 227 ---- in the time of William III., 530 Ploughing and Threshing, Ancient, 66 Poets, English, Fates of the Families of, 471 Pogonias Vocal Fish, 478 Poison Cup, The, 485 Poisoning the Monarch, 12 Police, London, Disgraceful State of, 193 Pont du Gard, Great Aqueduct of, 312 Pope's Chair, 577 Porcelain, Anecdote in, 517 Port Coon Cave, 516 Poet Haste One Hundred Years ago, 182 "Postman," The, Paragraph from, in 1697, 219 Pottery in China, Art of, 321 Powerscourt Fall, Phenomenon at the, 304 Prayers, Unusual Locality for Saying, 171 Praying by Machinery, 314 ---- by Wheel and Axle, 539