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4. English Tamil Grammar, compiled for the PalamGottah Se- 

 * minary. 



5. A Treatise showing where the different Descendants of Noah 



settled (as far as certainly known,) and taking particu- 

 lar notice of all nations and countries mentioned in the 

 Scriptures. 



6. A Chronology of Universal History. 



7. Introduction to do. 22 pages. 



The following passage in his private Journal, will illustrate the 

 character of the man. 



" My health failing entirely, I was constrained to apply for leave 

 to go to Europe for the recovery of my health, whilst waiting on the 

 Hills for a reply from England, two families of the Aborigines set- 

 tled near my house, in order to learn Tamul from me, and one of 

 them with the avowed intention to be by means of the Tamul, in- 

 structed in Christianity. Whilst teaching them Tamul, I compil- 

 ed a Vocabulary of their language, containing above 400 words, 

 from which it is clearly established that their speech is an ancient, 

 rude dialect of the Tamul. Dr. Cole intended to print it, but my 

 strength was so exhausted that I was unable, much as I wished it, 

 to write out a fair copy before sailing." 



When, in 1836, his leave to Germany having been sanctioned, and 

 he was preparing for the voyage, he writes " God found it good 

 to take away by death, my three sons within four months. I had 

 now quite given up my work among the Tamulians (although not 

 among the Todawars,) and I occupied my mind, by writing an Eng- 

 lish Treatise ' on the Relationship of Languages and Nations/ 

 in which I embodied the results of my philological inquiries and 

 observations during the last 28 or 30 years. This occupation was 

 a relief to my mind in my heavy and unexpected affliction. The 

 treatise was printed in the Madras Journal of Literature and 

 Science, 1837, Vol. V., p. 133. After my arrival in Germany, I 

 made a free translation of it, which was printed at the expense of 

 the Director of Instruction, Dr. Niemeyer, the successor in office 

 of Aug. H. Franke of Halle, in order to recommend thereby the 

 Mission cause to the attention of the Students in German Univer- 

 sities, and of the German Literary Public in general." Again, he 



