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Greenville (City of Texas the county-seat)

a city of Texas, the county-seat of Hunt co. It is on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Texas Midland, and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural region. Its industries include cottonseed-oil mills, cotton compresses, etc. It is the seat of Burleson College, College, V Wesley College, and Holiness University. Pop. (1910) 8,850; (1920) 12,384.

GREENWICH (grin'ij), a borough of the city of London, England, on the right bank of the Thames, 6 miles S. E. of London bridge. It contains a magnificent hospital for invalid seamen, built by Sir Christopher Wren (1696). The Royal Observatory, erected by Charles II., is under the charge of the Astronomer Royal, a position that has been filled by Flamsted, Halley, Bradley, Bliss, Maskelyne, Pond, Airy, etc. The longitude of all English charts and maps is reckoned from this observatory, and the captains of ships take their time, as given at 1 P. M. Pop. of borough about 96,000.