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cessary changes in order to meet tlie influx of 

 new id^as and new wants, nevertheless, in the 

 lapse of years, almost substitute a different dia- 

 it T /"finally used b, the community. 

 The Tamil of A. D. ^228 may be easily conceded 

 to be an obsolete tongue in A. D. 1830, although 

 we are unable to trace the aacces.ive changea 

 whjcn It may have sustained in the revolution of 

 sue centunes. As a proof of this assertiou 1 have 

 merely to mention that ihe earliest Dutch Re- 

 cords at Malacca, which could not have been 

 written before A. D, 1596, when the Dutch arri- 

 ved >n Java under Hautman, are now unintelliei- 

 ble even to the best informed «f the residents of 

 that nation. 1 bus, in the course of less than two 

 centnnea and a half, has been lost an European 

 language, u.ach more guarded bv adventitious 

 Circumstance, against corruption than any native 

 tongue could possibly be, in countries where the 

 constant mtercourse and the similarity of dialect 

 would naturally lead to a fusion of Asiatic lan- 

 guages, 



Singapore has a chaplain but no church, the 

 only place of worship being the Mission Chapel 

 toward* the erection of which, however, theEasi 

 India Company liberally contributed. 



The statement in the next page will exhibit a 

 comparative v.ew of the population of Singapore 

 on the 1st January 1832 and 1833. 



