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 236 GREENOCK of 30 to 55, and sometimes more, toward the east. These give a comparatively smooth out- line to the surface of the hills; and though the soil they produce is not generally fertile, the slopes are covered on the disappearance of the snow with fine pastures of rich green grass, which may have given the mountains their name, though this is commonly referred to the growth of evergreen forest trees, which abound upon the poorer lands and along the margins of the streams. Upon the better lands is found the hard-wood growth of beech, birch, sugar maple, white oak, ash, &c. The mineral pro- ducts of the Green mountains are very valua- ble, including excellent iron ores, manganese, marble, slate, &c. (See VERMONT.) GREENOCK, a parliamentary borough and seaport town of Renfrewshire, Scotland, on the S. shore of the estuary of the Clyde, 18 m. W. GREENPORT N. W. of Glasgow; pop. in 1871, 57,138. It stands partly on a narrow plain, and partly on the declivity of a high hill. It has about 35 churches and chapels, a Latin school, a town library of 12,000 volumes, a mechanics' hall, excellent docks and wharves, and in the neigh- borhood an aqueduct 3 m. long. There are nu- merous sugar refineries and iron founderies, considerable ship building, in particular of iron ships, and manufactories of sail cloth, shoes, soap, and candles. The entrances at the port in 1871 were 64 steamers and 562 sailing ves- sels ; the clearances, 22 steamers and 339 sail- ing vessels. The imports were valued at 6,- 117,796 (from the United States, 53,453); the exports at 649,313 (to the United States, 63,521). All the steamers of the Clyde touch at this port. The Victoria dock, opened Oct. 17, 1850, is a tidal basin covering an area of six Greenock. acres, and exceeding 30 ft. in depth ; it cost upward of 120,000. Until 1697 Greenock was a small fishing village. James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, was a native of the town, and in 1838 a marble statue by Chantrey was erected to him here. GREENOIGH, Horatio, an American sculptor, born in Boston, Sept. 6, 1805, died at Somer- ville, near Boston, Dec. 18, 1852. A French sculptor named Binon, resident in Boston, was his first master; and he enjoyed the friend- ship and advice of Washington Allston. Before completing his college course he went to Rome, where he arrived in the autumn of 1825. He returned to Boston in 1826, and after model- ling busts of John Quincy Adams, Chief Jus- tice Marshall, and others, returned to Italy and settled in Florence. His first commission was from James Fenimore Cooper, for whom he executed his "Chanting Cherubs." In 1831 he went to Paris to model the bust of Lafay- ette, and after his return to Florence received liberal commissions from his countrymen, prin- cipally for busts. To Cooper he was indebted for the commission from congress to execute his colossal statue of Washington, which was finished in 1843, after many years' labor. Du. ring this time he executed, among other original works, the " Medora " for Mr. Gilmore of Bal- timore, the " Angel Abdiel," and the " Venus Victrix " in the gallery of the Boston Athe- na5um. A second commission from congress employed him for some years subsequent to this, and in 1851 he returned to the United States to superintend the placing in Washing- ton of his group of the "Rescue." Many vex- atious delays prevented the arrival of the work from Italy, and Greenough was attacked by brain fever soon after he had commenced a course of lectures on art in Boston, and died after a short but severe illness. At, his death he had sketches of work for 20 years. A " Me- morial of Horatio Greenough," published in 1853, contains a collection of his papers on art and other subjects, preceded by a life of the artist by H. T. Tuckerman. GREENPORT, a village and port of delivery in the town of Southold, Suffolk co., N. Y., on the S. side of the N. E. point of Long Island, 95 m. E. N. E. of New York; pop. in 1870, 1,819. It has an excellent harbor at the en- trance to Peconic bay, capacious enough for