d a
translation. It contains some remarks respecting Father Scio's version,
which I consider to be of high importance, and humbly recommend to the
attention of the Committee.

But I am at present in Madrid, and am thus enabled to superintend in
person the measures calculated to secure the sale of the work. I shall
forthwith cause a thousand advertisements to be printed and affixed from
time to time in every part of the city. I shall likewise employ
colporteurs to vend them in the streets, and shall perhaps establish a
stall or small shop, where Testaments and Testaments alone will be
sold.--No exertion of which I am capable will be spared, and if 'the Word
of the Lord' become not speedily better known at Madrid, it will be
because the Lord in His inscrutable wisdom does not so will it.

Whilst in the northern provinces I ordered a hundred copies to be
despatched from Madrid to each of the three great towns, Valencia,
Seville, and Cadiz, with advertisements; I am glad to be able to state
that advice has been received that the books have reached their
destination. At the commencement of the coming year it is my intention
to visit those parts; for no work seems to prosper in Spain which is not
closely attended to by the master. Whilst at Valladolid I ordered all
the copies which remained unsold of the second supply to be sent to
Burgos, and I am now going to despatch a third fifty to the former town,
and a still larger quantity to Oviedo, those which I carried thither
having been all sold during my short stay.

In a few days it is my intention to commit to the press Luke in Basque
and in Rommany, the latter of which versions I propose to carry with me
to Andalusia and Valencia, the two provinces which most abound with the
Rommany-Chai, of whom, by the way, I found no trace in Old Castile,
Galicia, or the Asturias. As for the Basque version, it is probable that
even in Madrid it will not be without demand, as many Biscayans residing
there will doubtless be eager to read the Gospel when placed within their
reach in their native tongue.

I will now conclude by begging pardon for all errors of commission and
omission. I am a frail foolish vessel, and have accomplished but a
slight portion of what I proposed in my vanity. Yet something, though
but little, has been effected by this journey, which I have just brought
to a conclusion. The New Testament of Christ is enjoying a quiet sale in
the principal towns of the n