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the Indian languages, was chiefly instrumental in making 

 the translations ; while Mr. Ward, who had heen bred a 

 printer, superintended the founts of types, which were cut 

 by a native family. The first-fruit of their labours was the 

 publication, in February, 1801, of the New Testament in 

 Bengalee. The high acquirements of Mr. Carey being now 

 fully recognised, he was appointed by Marquis Weliesley 

 professor of that language and Sanscrit in the college 

 of Fort William, with a salary of 1500/. a year, which, not- 

 withstanding the occupation of his time, afforded valuable 

 means of extending his usefulness. 



The associates now prosecuted their task of translation 

 with the utmost activity. In 1806 they issued proposals 

 for publishing the Sacred Scriptures in fifteen of the prin- 

 cipal oriental languages; and they have since been inde- 

 futigably employed in redeeming this great pledge. To say 

 nothing of their grammars, dictionaries, and other literary 

 works, it appears by the most recent accounts that the en- 

 tire Bible has been printed, and copies circulated, in the 

 Sanscrit, Bengalee, Hindee, Mahratta, and Orissa. The 

 New Testament, by itself, has been printed, and copies cir- 

 culated, in the following twenty-four dialects spoken in In- 

 dia, viz. — Nepalee, Palpa, Kemaoon, Serinagur, Jumboo, 

 Cashmere, Magadha, Kanouge,- Brij-Bhaka, Pushtoo, Seik, 

 Batneir, Bikaneer, Moultanee, Marwar, Guzeratee, Ouaei- 

 nee, Karotee, Bhugulkhund, Telinga, Carnata, Kunkun, 

 Cossyah, and Munipoora. Besides these, versions of the 

 Old Testament in Pushtoo, Cashmere, and Orissa are now 

 in the press. The population to whom these Indian lan- 

 guages are vernacular amounts to more than one hundred 

 millions. 



Besides Serampore, there are now native churches, or sta- 

 tions, with preachers and schools, at Dum-dum, Barrepore, 

 Jessore, Burisahl, Dacca, Cliittagong, Dinagepore, and Sad- 

 damahl, in Bengal ; at Benares, Allahabad, Cawnpore, and 

 Delhi, in Hindostan Proper. 



The London Missionary Society, founded on a great scale 

 in 1795, directed their attention 'first to the islands of the 

 South Sea, and afterward to Southern Africa. In 1804, 

 however, they despatched three missionaries to India, two 

 of whom went to Vizagnpatan in the Northern Circars, the 

 other to the southern district of Tinnevelly. They have 



