1853 Discontinued.
Meshgara, " 30 1 1869 Boys and girls,
Ain Anub, " 20 1 1870 and 60 boys.
Kefr Shima, " 40 1 1856 Boys and girls.
Rasheiya el
Fokhar, " 30 1 1869
Jedaideh, " 40 1 1870
El Khiyam, " 25 1 1868
Ibl, " 30 1 1868
Deir Mimas, " 15 1 1865
Kana, " 35 1 1869
Hums, " 40 1 1865
Safita, " 30 1 1869
Hamath, " 30 1 1872
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Totals 23 801 36

This gives a total of twenty-three girls' schools besides the
twenty-four boys' schools under the care of the Mission, and three
schools where there are both boys and girls. I have kept the name of
B'hamdun in the list, for its historical associations, but the thirty
pupils credited to it, will be more than made good in the girl's school
about to be resumed in Tripoli under the care of Miss Kip.

The total number of girls is about 800, and the number of teachers 36.
The total cost of these twenty-three schools, including the two
Seminaries in Beirut and Sidon, is about eight thousand dollars per
annum, including rents, salaries of five American and English ladies,
and thirty-one native teachers.

The average cost of the common schools in the Sidon field is sixty
dollars per annum, and in the Lebanon field it varies from this sum to
about twice that amount, owing to the fact that the Deir el Komr and
other schools are virtually High Schools.

The teacher in the Sidon field, and in Abeih, and Safita, are graduates
of the Sidon Seminary.

It is probable that a High School or Seminary for girls will be opened
by Miss Kip in Tripoli during the coming year.

The preceding schedule can give but a faint idea of the struggles and
toil, the patient labors, disappointments and trials of faith through
which the women of the American Mission have passed during the last
forty years, in beginning and maintaining so many of these schools for
girls in Syria.

Did I speak of _trials_? The Missionary work has its trials, but I
believe that its joys are far greater. The saddest scenes I have
witnessed during a residence of seventeen years in Syria, have been when
Missionar