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difguft; and he fled from the gloom of that dilfenting 
worffiip in which he had been initiated, when he was 
no longer compelled to attend it. He was fubjeCt to 
low fpirits; as a cure for which he compofed his prin¬ 
cipal poem, The Spleen. It prefents a picture of his 
mind and manners, which implies a practical philofo- 
phy of the fober and rational epicurean call:. He lived 
in celibacy, and died in 1737, at the age of forty-one. 
His poems confift of, 1. The Spleen. 2. The Grotto. 
3. Verfes on Barclay’s Apology. 4. The Seeker; and 
fome fmaller pieces; making only a fmall volume. In 
manner and fubjeCt they are fome of the mod original 
pieces in the language ; and are replete with uncommon 
thoughts, flew and ftriking images, and thofe affocia- 
tions of remote ideas.by fome unexpected fimilitude, in 
which wit principally confifts. Few poems willbearmore 
repealed perufals. They have all been publiffied in 
Dodfley’s collection, and have been received into other 
t 'colleCtions of Englilh poetry. An elegant edition of 
them, with fome critical remarks by Dr. Aikin, was 
publilhed in 1796, 121110. 
GREEN BANK, one of the banks near the ifland of 
Newfoundland: forty-three leagues long, and fixteen 
wide. Lat. 45. 30. to 46. 50. N. Ion. 53. 30. to 55. 50. 
W. Greenwich. 
GREEN BAY, a bay on the weft fide of the Lake of 
Michigan: twenty leagues long, and three broad. 
GREEN B AY, a bay on the eaft coaft of the iftand 
of Antigua, fouth from Green Ifland. 
GREEN BRI'AR, a large and fertile county of the 
American States, in Virginia, furrounded by Bath, Ran¬ 
dolph, Harrifon, Ranhaway, Botetourt, and Montgo¬ 
mery, counties. It is about one hundred miles long, 
and forty-five broad; and together with Kanhaway 
county, which was formerly a part of it, contains 6oi£ 
inhabitants. There is a large cave on Rich Creek in 
this county, the earth at the bottom of which is ftrongly 
impregnated with fulphur. Many fuch are to be found 
on Green Briar River. The chief town is' Louifburg. 
At Green Briar court-houfe is a poft-office, thirty 
miles weft-by-fouth of Sweet Springs, and 103 weft of 
Staunton. 
GREEN BRIAR, a river of the American States, 
which runs a fouth-weft courfe, and falls into the eaft- 
ern fide of the Great Kanhaway, at the place where that 
river breaks through the Laurel Ridge, and oppofite to 
the mouth of New River, in lat. 38. N. 
GREEN BROOM,/. A fhrub. See Genista. 
GREEN CLOTH, J. A court of the king’s houfhold, 
fo termed from the green cloth on the table. It is a 
court of juftice, compofed of the lord fteward, treasurer 
of the houfhold, comptroller, and other officers; to 
which is committed the government and overfight of 
the king’s court, the keeping of the peace within the 
verge, and correcting and- punifhing the fervants who 
Hi all offend.—For the green-cloth law, take, it in the 
largeft fenfe, 1 have no opinion of it. Bacon. 
GREEN CLOTH, adj. Belonging to the board of 
green cloth ; conftituted by the board of green cloth. 
GREEN-EYED, adj. Having eyes coloured with 
; green: 
Doubtful thoughts, and raffi-embrac’d defpair. 
And Ihudd’ring fear, and green-eyed jealoufy. Skakefpeare. 
GREEN-FINCH,/, in ornithology, a fong-bird.— 
See Loxia chloris. —The chaffinch, green-jinck , and 
other fmall birds, are injurious to fruits. Mortimer. 
GREEN GAGE,/A fpeciesof plum. SeePRUNus. 
GREEN-HAIRED,■ adj. Having green locks: 
Ye green-hair'd nymphs, whom Pan’s decrees 
Have giv’n to guard this folemn wood. Mafon’s Odes. 
GREEN HIDE,/. An untanned hide; a hide juft 
taken from the beaft. 
GREEN HOUSE, or Conservatory,/. A houfe 
G R E 
in which tender plants are fheltered front the weather. 
See the article Horticulture. 
GREEN HUE,/. In the foreft law, any thing green 
within the foreft. 1 
GREEN ISLAND, a fmall ifland of England, in the 
harbour of Poole. 
GREEN ISLAND, a fmall ifland near the north-eaft 
coaft of New Holland: four leagues eaft-north-eaft from 
Cape Grafton. 
GREEN ISLAND, an ifland in Hudfon’s Bay. Lat, 
61. 2. N. Ion. 72. 40. W. Greenwich. 
GREEN ISLAND, a fmall ifland near the eaft coaft 
of Antigua. Lat. 17. 13. N. Ion.61. 21. W. Greenwich. 
GREEN ISLAND, a fmall ifland of the Weft Indies, 
about a mile north-eaft from the ifland of St. Thomas. . 
GREEN ISLAND, or Serpent Island, one of 
the fmallerVirgin Iflands, claimed by the Spaniards, and 
fituated near the eaft end of Porto. Rico. 
GREEN ISLAND HARBOUR, a bay on the weft, 
ern extremity of the ifland of Jamaica. It furniffies good 
anchorage, having Davis’s Cove on the north-eaft, and 
Half-moon and Orange bays on the fouth-weft. 
GREEN MOUN'TAINS, a range of mountains in 
North America, extending north-north-eaft to fouth- 
fouth-weft, and dividing the waters which flow eafterly 
into Connecticut river, from thofe which fall wefterly 
into Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Hudfon’s ri¬ 
ver. The afcent from the eaft to the top of the Green 
Mountain in Vermont, is much eafier than from the 
weft, till you get to Onion river, where the mountain 
terminates. The height of land is generally from twenty 
to thirty miles from the river, and about the fame dis¬ 
tance from the New-York line. The natural growth 
upon this mountain is hemlock, pine, fpruce, and other 
evergreens; hence it has always a green appearance, and 
on this account has obtained the defcriptive name of 
Ver Mans. On fome parts of this mountain fnow lies 
till May, and fometitnes till June. The chain extends 
through Maflachufetts and Connecticut, and terminates 
in Newhaven. Kellington Peak, the higheft of thefe 
mountains, is about 3454 feet above the level of the 
ocean. 
GREEN RIVER, a river of Canada, which runs into 
the river St. Laurence, one hundred miles below Quebec. 
GREEN SICKNESS, /. The difeafe of maids, fo 
called from the palenefs which it produces. See Chlo¬ 
rosis. —Sour eruCtations, and a craving appetite, efpe- 
cially of terreftrial and abforbent fubftances, are the cafe 
of girls in the green Jicknefs. Arbuthnot. 
GREEN SILVER, in the feudal law, an ancient 
cuftom within the manor of Writtel, in the county of 
Eflex, where every tenant whole fore-door opens to 
Greenbury, fhall pay a halfpenny yearly to the lord, 
by the name of green filver. The term fiver, here, mult 
mean rent. 
GREEN WAX, in law, is where eftreats are deli¬ 
vered to the ffieriffs out of the exchequer, under the 
feal of that court, made in green wax, to be levied in 
the feveral counties, by flat. 7 Hen. IV. c. 3. 
GREEN WEED,/. Dyers weed. See Genista. 
GREE'NAE, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland: 
twenty-eight miles north-eaft of Aarhuus. 
GREEN'BURGH, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Weftchefter county, New-York, containing 1400 in¬ 
habitants, of whom 164 are electors. 
GREEN'BUSH, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Renflalaer county, New-York; 164 of its inhabitants 
are electors. 
GREENCAS'TLE, a town of the American States, 
in Franklin county, Pennfylvania, fituated near the Co- 
hegocheague creek. Here are two German churches, 
and a prelbyterian church. It is eleven miles fouth-by- 
weft of Chamberlburg, and 156 weft-by-fouth of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
GREENE, a county of the American States, in Ken¬ 
tucky, 
