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ijnals, which feed in large herds, into a narrow defile, 
where they are eafily flain with arrows. Their bow is^ 
made of fir-tree, wound about with the twitted finewsof 
animals: the firing is. compofed of the fame material; 
and the arrow is fix feet in length, pointed with a beard¬ 
ed iron, or a {harp bone; but thofe with which they kill 
lairds have no barb, that they may not tear the fleth. 
Sea-fowl they kill with lances, which they throw to a 
great diftance with furprifing dexterity. Their canoe, 
like that ufed in Nova Zembla and Hudfon’s bay, is 
about eighteen feet in length, pointed at both ends, 
and three quarters of a yard in breadth. It is com¬ 
pofed of thin rafts fattened together with the finews of 
animals. It is covered with drelfed feal-Ikins both be¬ 
low and above, in fuch a manner that only a circular 
hole is left in fhe-middle, large enough to admit the 
body of one man. Into this the Greenlander thrufts 
himfelf up to the waift, and fattens the Ikin fo tight 
about him that no water can enter. Thus fecured, and 
armed with a paddle broad at both ends, he will ven¬ 
ture out to fea in the moftftormy weather to catch feals 
and fea-fowl; and if he is overfet, he can eafily raife 
himfelf by means of his paddle. In this flight veflel 
they Will row themfelves lixty or feventy miles in a 
day; and, as Mr. Pinkerton informs us, have been 
fometimes wafted as far as the Orkneys. 
What is called the ice blink, is an amazing congeries 
of ice, at the mouth of an inlet, the fplendor of which 
Is difcerned at the diftance of many leagues. It is faid 
to extend in magnificent arches for about twenty-four 
miles. The ftiort fuinmer is remarkably favourable to 
Vegetation ; and the northern lights help to diverfify 
the gloom of winter. What is called the froji [moke, 
burfts from cracks in the frozen ocean. The higheft 
mountains are on the weft fide ; and the three pinnacles 
of what is called the Stag’s Horn, are vifible from fea 
at the diftance of fixty leagues. Crantz obferves that 
the rocks are full of clefts, commonly perpendicular, 
and feldom wider than half a yard, filled with fpar, 
quartz, talc, and garnets. The rocks are generally ver¬ 
tical, or little inclined, confiding of granite, fand-ftone, 
lapis olaris, micacious fchiftus, coarfe marble, and fer- 
entine; with albeftos and amianthus, eryftals, and 
lack fchorl. It is faid that fluat of argill has been 
recently found in Greenland. The lapis olaris is of An¬ 
gular utility in that dark and difmal country, being 
ufed for lamps, and culinary utenfils. The winter is fofe- 
Vere, that the rocks often burft afunder by the intenfity 
of the froft. Above 66° the fun does not fet in the longed 
days, and at 64° is not four hours beneath the horizon. 
GREEN'LAND, a town of the American States, in 
Rockingham county, New Hampfliire, in the vicinity of 
the Ocean, five miles foutherly from Portfmoilth. It 
was incorporated in 1713, and contains 634 inhabitants. 
GREEN'LAND COMPANY. For the encourage¬ 
ment of the whale fifliery, a joint flock of forty thou- 
fand pounds was, by ftatute, to be raifed by fubfcribers, 
who were incorporated : and the company to ufe the 
trade of fiflting for whales, &c. into and from Green¬ 
land, and the Greenland feas: they might make by¬ 
laws for their government, and of perfons employed in 
their Ihips, See. 4&5 Will. III. c. 17. But by 1 Anne, 
c. 16, any perfons who will adventure to Greenland for 
'vvhale-fifhing,(hall haveall privilegesgranted totheGreen- 
landcompany. See thearticle Fishery, vol. vii, p. 412. 
GREENLAND FISHERY, or Whale Fishery. 
"See the article Fishery, vol. vii. p. 412-419. 
GREEN'LAW, a town of Scotland, in the county 
■of Berwick : fifteen miles weft-fouth-weft of Berwick, 
and twenty-feven foutli-eaft of Edinburgh. 
GREEN'LY, adv. With a greeniih colour. Newly; 
frefhly. Wanly; timidly.—Kate I cannot look greenly , 
nor gafp out my eloquence ; nor. have I cunning in pro- 
teftation. Skakefp'care .—Immaturely; without mature 
deliberation : 
Vol. IX. No. 561, 
We have done but greenly, 
In hugger-mugger to inter him. Shakcfpeare. 
GREEN'NESS,/. The quality of being green; vi¬ 
ridity; viridnefs.—In a meadow, though the meer 
grafts and greennefs delights, yet the variety of flowers 
doth heighten and beautify. Ben Jonfon. —Immaturity; 
unripenefs.—This prince, while yet the errors in his na¬ 
ture were excufed by the greennefs of his youth, which 
took all the fault upon itfelf, loved a private man’s 
wife. Sidney. —Frefhnefs; vigour.—Take the pidture of 
a man in the greennefs and vivacity of his youth, and in 
the latter date and declenfion of his drooping years, 
and you will fcarce know it to belong'to the fame per- 
fon. South. —Newnefs. 
GREE'NOCK, a feaport town of Scotland, on the 
river Clyde, with a fmall fort to defend the harbour : 
eighteen miles weft of Glafgow, and twenty-nine north 
of Ayr. Lat. 55. 56. N. Ion. 1. 39. W. Edinburgh. 
GREENO'RE POINT, a cape of Ireland, in the 
county of Wexford, in the Irifti Sea. Lat. 52. 16. N- 
Ion. 6. 18. W. Greenwich. 
GREENS'BOROUGH, a poft-town, and the chief 
town of Green county, belonging to the American 
States, in Georgia : thirty miles from Lexington, and 
feventy-eight weft-by-fouth from Augufta. 
GREENS'BOROUGH, a town of the Americas 
States, in Caroline county, Maryland ; on the weft fide 
of Choptank Creek : feven miles north of D ant on, and 
twenty-two fouth-eaft-by-fouth of Chefter. 
GREENS'BOROUGH, a townfhip of the American 
States, in Orleans county, Vermont. It adjoins to Min- 
den on the north-weft, and Wheelock on the fouth-eaft. 
GREENS'BOROUGH, a flourilhing town of the 
American States, in Green county, Georgia: eighty 
miles weft of Augufta, thirty from Waftiington, and 
five from the Oconee river, the boundary line between 
the Creek Indiansand white people. This town is con¬ 
tiguous to a large quantity of lands which the ftate 
has laid off and appropriated for the ufe of her public 
univerfity, and which are now in fuch a ftate of cultiva¬ 
tion, as to afford a handfome revenue for that inftitution. 
GREENS'BURGH, a poft-town, and the capital of 
Weftmoreland county, in Pennfylvania ; belonging to 
the American States. It is a neat town, fituated on a 
branch of Sewickly Creek, which empties into Youg- 
hiogany river. Here are a German Calvinift church, 
a brick-built court-houfe, and a ftone gaol : thirty-one 
miles fouth-eaft-by-eaft of Pittlburgh, and two hundred 
and feventy weft-by-north of Philadelphia. 
GREENS'V ILLE, a county of the American States, 
in Virginia, encompaffed by Brunfwick, Southampton, 
and Snffex, counties, on the weft, north, and eaft, and 
by the ftate of North Carolina on the fouth. It is 
about twenty-four miles long, and twenty broad, and 
contains, by the cenfus, 6362 inhabitants. 
GREEN'SWARD, or Greensword, /. [of the 
fame original with fwath.]—, The turf on which grafts 
grows. In Ihallow foils all is gravel within a few inches; 
and fometimes in low ground a thin greenjward, and 
doughy underneath ; which Iaft turns all into bog. Swift . 
After break their faft 
On greenfward g round, a cool and grateful tafte. Dryden. 
GREEN'VILLE, a county of the American States, 
in Walhington diftriift, South Carolina; fituated in the 
north-weft corner of the ftate ; bounded eaft by Span 
tanburg county, in Pinckney diftrifl:; fouth, by Pendle¬ 
ton ; weft, by the ftate of Georgia, and that tradt of 
country which the ftate of South Carolina ceded to the 
United States; and north, by the ftate of North Caro- _ 
lina. It contains 6503 inhabitants. The lands are' 
mountainous and hilly, and well watered, and the cli¬ 
mate healthy and agreeable. 
GREEN'VILLE, a poft-town of the American States; 
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