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Parramatta River Farms (NSW)
Among the first grants on the Parramatta v. were those of Isaac Archer, Royal Marines, 80 acres, January 3rd 1792 Michael Connor, 80 acres at Ryde, April 6th 1798 (Portion 21, parish of Hunters Hill), Alexander Macdonald, Corporal, Royal Marines, January 3rd 1792, and John Ramsay, 50 acres, February 22nd 1792.

Penrith (NSW)
The town of Penrith was built upon a grant of 1,000 acres on the Nepean to Captain Daniel Woodriff, R.N. (which he received on 1 February 1804).

Periapatam (or Periyapatam) [PIRIYAPATNA] (South India)
Located on the western boundary of Mysore on the strategic trunk road leading from Cannanore to Seringapatam .

Pernambuco (Brazil)
City/state located in northeast Brazil between the Sao Francisco and Panaiba rivers. It was the largest Portuguese colony in Brazil in the sixteenth century and by the early seventeenth century had become its most prosperous - and was the world's leading sugar region. This prosperity was based upon a plantation society completely dependent upon the importation of black African slaves. By the late C18th this primacy had been eclipsed by Dutch and English initiatives elsewhere in South America and the Caribbean. On the coast, the port of Recife provided anchorages for deepwater vessels and sheltered dock facilities for ships visiting the city/state of Pernambuco (with slaves or collecting cargoes of agricultural produce.

The Ponds District (NSW)
Located between North Parramatta and Ryde.

Poodicherrum Ghaut [or Pudiyacharan] (South India)
Steep mountain pass leading from Cannanore (on the Malabar Coast) though Irukkur to Virajendrapet (Coorg) and into Mysore. Also referred to as the Heggala Ghat. Macquarie made the ascent and descent of the pass on a number of occasions during the British military campaigns in 1791-1792 and 1799 against Tipu Sultan.

Port Dalrymple (VDL: Tasmania)
The early name for the port on the Tamar River at Launceston.

Portland Head (NSW)
At the time of Macquarie's visit in 1810 there were no grants on the Hawkesbury below Sackville Reach.

Prince Regent's Glen (NSW)
Valleys now named Jamieson, Megalong and Kanimbla.

Pyché [or Pychy] (South India)
[PALASSI]: Macquarie campaigned in this area in 1797.

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