extraordinary and humble man will be more correctly appreciated."

In none of the classes of languages derived from the Sanskrit was
the zeal of Carey and his associates so remarkable as in the Hindi.
So early as 1796 he wrote of this the most widely extended
offspring of the Sanskrit:--"I have acquired so much of the Hindi as
to converse in it and preach for some time intelligibly...It is the
current language of all the west from Rajmahal to Delhi, and perhaps
farther. With this I can be understood nearly all over Hindostan."
By the time that he issued the sixth memoir of the translations
Chamberlain's experiences in North-Western India led Carey to write
that he had ascertained the existence of twenty dialects of Hindi,
with the same vocabulary but different sets of terminations. The
Bruj or Brijbhasa Gospels were finished in 1813, two years after
Chamberlain had settled in Agra, and the New Testament was completed
nine years after. This version of the Gospels led the Brahman
priest, Anand Masih, to Christ. In their eagerness for a copy of
the Old Testament, which appeared in 1818, many Sepoys brought
testimonials from their commanding officers, and in one year it led
eighteen converts to Christ. The other Hindi dialects, in which the
whole New Testament or the Gospels appeared, will be found at page
177 {see footnote number 16}. The parent Hindi translation was made
by Carey with his own hand from the original languages between 1802
and 1807, and ran through many large editions till Mr. Chamberlain's
was preferred by Carey himself in 1819.

We may pass over the story of the Dravidian versions, the Telugoo20
New Testament and Pentateuch, and the Kanarese. Nor need we do more
than refer to the Singhalese, "derived from the previous labours of
Dr. Carey" by Tolfrey, the Persian, Malayalam, and other versions