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 240 GREENWOOD infirm and bed-ridden pensioners thereupon left the hospital, and it is now kept as a medi- cal hospital for wounded seamen in time of war. The income of the hospital amounts to about 150,000 a year. The observatory was erected by Charles II. for the advancement of navigation and nautical astronomy. Its organ- ization is very complete. It is charged with Greenwich Hospital. the transmission of time throughout England by means of electro-magnetic circuits, in addi- tion to its ordinary functions. Greenwich has several large factories, extensive engineering establishments, iron-steamboat yards, rope- walks, &c. The borough comprises Green- wich, Deptford, and Woolwich. GREENWOOD. I. A S. E. county of Kansas, intersected by Verdigris and Fall rivers ; area, 1,155 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 3,484. The surface is undulating and the soil fertile. The chief pro- ductions in 1870 were 35,449 bushels of wheat, 173,590 of Indian corn, 24,492 of oats, 14,774 of potatoes, and 10,485 tons of hay. There were 1,638 horses, 2,323 milch cows, 5,427 other cattle, 3,575 sheep, 1,890 swine, and 5 saw mills. Capital, Eureka. II. An E. coun- ty of Colorado, bordering on Kansas; area, about 4,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 510. It has since been absorbed by Bent and Elbert coun- ties. It was intersected by Big Sandy creek, a branch of the Arkansas, and watered in the E. part by the head streams of Smoky Hill river. Irrigation is necessary. Buffalo grass and cactus abound. The Kansas Pacific rail- road traverses the region. Capital, Kit Carson. GREENWOOD, Francis William Pitt, an Ameri- can clergyman, born in Boston, Feb. 5, 1797, died there, Aug. 2, 1843. He graduated at Harvard college in 1814, and immediately com- menced the study of theology under the direc- tion of Dr. Ware, approving in the main, then and for the rest of his life, the doctrines preva- lent in Boston under the name of liberal Chris- tianity. In October, 1818, he became pastor of the new South church and society in Bos- ton ; but after a single year his course was ar- rested by a pulmonary disease. He went to England in 1820, but, not fully recovering his health, resigned his pastorate. He returned in the autumn of 1821, passed a little more than two years at Baltimore, preached occa- sionally, and wrote for and edited for nearly two years a periodical called the " Unitarian Miscellany." In 1824 he became colleague of Dr. James Freeman, pastor of King's chapel, Boston, who with the consent and coopera- tion of his society had revised the "Book of Common Prayer" there used so as to ex- clude the recognition of the Trinity. Bodily infirmities compelled Dr. Freeman to give up the pulpit in 1827, and Mr. Greenwood took the full charge. He had a strong taste for the natural sciences, conchology and botany being his especial favorites, and he was one of the first members of the Boston society of natural history. A return of haemorrhage of the lungs compelled him to make a voyage to Cuba in 1837. While confined to a sick ch amber the year before his death, he prepared for publica- tion " Sermons of Consolation " (1842). He was also the author of " History of King's Chapel" (Boston, 1833), "Lives of the Twelve Apos- tles" (1838), "Sermons to Children," and nu- merous contributions to periodicals. After his decease Samuel A. Eliot edited two volumes of his sermons from the MSS., and prefaced them with a memoir of the author; and a vol- ume of his miscellaneous writings was pub- lished by his son (1846).