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POTT as well as Frederick's clock, which was stopped at the instant of his death. Another palace in the same grounds was built after the seven years' war; and at no great distance is the POTTAWATTAMIES 775 Koyal Palace, Potsdam. beautiful villa of Charlottenhof, built in the Italian style. Other royal residences in the neighborhood of Potsdam are the marble pal- ace, and the villa on Peacock island in the Ha- vel. Potsdam is the capital of an administra- ive district of the same name. Cotton, lace, silk, linen, woollen, leather, porcelain, chemi- cal substances, and firearms are manufactured. POTT, August Friedrich, a German philologist, >rn at Nettelrede, near Hanover, Nov. 14, 1802. He studied in Hanover and at the uni- versity of Gottingen, and was a teacher in the masium of Celle from 1825 to 1827, when le went to Berlin, where he was admitted as Docent. Since 1833 he has been professor of philology at Halle. He is a follower of Grimm and Wilhelm von Humboldt, and his Etymolo- gische Forschungen aufdem Geliete der indo- germaniscTien Sprachen (2 vols., Lemgo, 1833- '6; revised ed., 4 vols., Detmold, 1867-'73) ranks next to Bopp's Vergleichende Gramma- tik, introducing a new era in comparative phi- lology. Among his other works are : Die Zi- geuner in Europa und Asien (2 vols., Halle, 1844-'5) ; Die quinare und mgesimale Zahl- methode lei Volkern aller WelttJieile (1847) ; Die Personennamen, insbesondere die Familien- namen und ihre EntsteJiungsarten (Leipsic, 1853 ; 2d ed., with an index, 1859) ; Die Un- gleicJiJieit der menscJilicTien Eassen (Lemgo, 1862) ; Anti-Kaulen (1863) ; and Die Sprach- verschiedenheiten in Europa an den ZaTilen nachgewiesen (Halle, 1868). POTT, Pereival, an English surgeon, born in London in 1713, died in 1788. He was con- nected with St. Bartholomew's hospital, first as assistant surgeon, and in 1749 as one of the principal surgeons. He was particularly dis- tinguished by his valuable and original re- searches upon angular curvature of the spine caused by disease and absorption of the bodies of the vertebrae, since known by the name of " Pott's disease." His principal works are: a "Treatise on Rup- tures" (London, 1756); "An Account of a par- ticular kind of Rup- ture, the Hernia Con- genita" (1757); "Ob- servations on Fistula Lachrymalis" (1758); "Observations on the Nature and Conse- quences of Wounds and Contusions of the Head," &c. (1760) ; " General Remarks on Fractures and Disloca- tions " (1768) ; " On the Cure of Hydro- celebySeton" (1772); " Remarks on that kind of Palsy of the Limbs which attends Curva- ture of the Spine" (1779); and "Further Remarks" on the same subject (1783). POTTAWATTAMIE. I. A S. W. county of Iowa, separated from Nebraska by the Mis- souri river, and drained by the Boyer and West fork of the Nishnabatona, besides sev- eral large creeks; area, 960 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 18,893. Its soil, diversified by prairie and forest, is generally fertile. It is inter- sected by the Burlington and Missouri River, Chicago and Northwestern, and other rail- roads. The chief productions in 1870 were 154,940 bushels of wheat, 611,528 of Indian corn, 88,108 of oats, 81,860 of potatoes, 200,- 491 Ibs. of butter, and 19,326 tons of hay. There were 3,040 horses, 3,134 milch cows, 5,102 other cattle, 2,195 sheep, and 6,683 swine ; 4 flour mills, 1 saw mill, 2 breweries, 3 manu- factories of saddlery and harness, and 2 of cigars. Capital, Council Bluffs. II. A N. E. county of Kansas, bounded S. by the Kansas and W. by the Big Blue river, and watered by numerous streams; area, 851 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 7,848. The Kansas Pacific railroad passes along the S. border. The surface is some- what diversified, and the soil fertile. Timber grows along the streams. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 96,435 bushels of wheat, 468,445 of Indian corn, 112,407 of oats, 51,- 254 of potatoes, 14,534 Ibs. of wool, 152,422 of butter, and 18,719 tons of hay. There were 3,404 horses, 3,526 milch cows, 6,035 other cattle, 3,346 sheep, and 3,451 swine ; 1 flour mill, 3 saw mills, and 4 manufactories of tin ware. Capital, Louisville. POTTAWATTAMIES, a tribe of North Ameri- can Indians belonging to the great Algonquin family, and speaking one of the rudest dialects.