to my
work, and daily do a little as my strength will admit. The printing of
the translations is now going forward almost as usual, but I have not
yet been able to attend to my duties in College. The affairs of the
Mission are more extended, and I trust in as prosperous a state as at
any former time. There are now many of other denominations employed in
Missions, and I rejoice to say that we are all workers together in the
work. The native churches were never in a better state, and the face
of the Mission is in every respect encouraging. Give my love to all
who know me.--I am very affectionately yours, W. CAREY."

Still more severe and disastrous in its effects was the cyclone of
1831. The former had desolated the open garden, but this laid low some
of the noblest trees which, in their fall, crushed his splendid
conservatory. One of his brethren represents the old man as weeping
over the ruin of the collections of twenty years. Again the Hoogli,
lashed into fury and swollen by the tidal wave, swept away the
lately-formed road, and, cutting off another fourth of the original
settlement of the Mission, imperilled the old house of Mr. Ward. Its
ruins were levelled to form another road, and ever since the whole face
of the right bank of the river has been a source of apprehension and
expense. Just before this, Dr. Staughton had written from America that
the interest on the funds raised there by Ward for the College would
not be sent until the trustees were assured that the money was not to
be spent on the teaching of science in the College, but only on the
theological education of Hindoo converts. "I must confess," was Carey's
reply, "I never heard anything more illiberal. Pray can youth be
trained up for the Christian ministry without science? Do you in
America train up youths for it without any knowledge of science?"

One of Dr. Carey's latest visits to Calcutta was to inspect the
Society's Garden then at Alipore, and to write the elaborate report of
the Horticultural Committee which appeared in the second volume of the
Transactions after his death. He there records the great success of
the cultivation of the West India arrowroot. This he introduced into
his own garden, and after years of discontinued culture we raised many
a fine crop from the old roots. The old man "cannot but advert, with
feelings of the highest satisfaction, to the display of vegetables on
the 13th January 1830, a display which would ha