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dients of a blackening nature . This oil both rendereth the book durable , and the writing legible , when without it , all would appear white , and the reading prove very difficult to those that were not
well acquainted with it . This blackish colour is also a great comfort to the eye . 99 Account , p . 27 . To form their books , u the end of every leaf a bole is
made , and through the hole a string drawn , whereby the whole set of leaves is kept together ; but then they must be untied to be read /* Pt . ii . p . 17 .
Among these papers is a letter ( in Parts ) addressed to the chaplain of Fort St . George t > y the missionary just named and his colleague , giving an account of the iC method of instruction used in
their charity schools , " In < c the first Malabarick school / ' the scholars " learn geography aud the use of the globes : they transcribe on leaves of a tree called
palmeira , with a steel pen such books as they themselves have occasion for at school . Some learn to wr ite a good hand on * uch leaves" ( p . 85 ) . In " the second
school , consisting of younger boys , —in the afternoon , from 1 to 4 , they sit on the ground writing with their fingers in sand , spread
on the floor for that purpose , ( the common V ^ ay of teaching young children to read and write in the East Indies , } the lessons which every child hath been taught in the morning , chanting , with an audible voice , the names of the letters or words aa ' they write them /'
jpu $ 7- In " the third school for girh ) the younge ^ y ^ ri te ( chanting the lessons they have learnt ) with their fingers in sand . The « Wer , with a Malabarick pen of steeL
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practise writing on haves , in order to get a fair hand' * ( p . 89 ) . This attention to the education of the female children is highly crediu able to the Danish mission , a « nn
posed to the practice of the coun . try , which is thu £ described ia the" Account" p . 29 . " They have in all their cities , market
towns and villages , settled schools , wherein their youth is taught to read and write , though there ar $ very few that attain to any per . fection . The reason seems to be
because no less than six years study is required to make a man perfect in both . —Their women are not kept at school at all , and consequently remain ignorant in either , except a few of them singled out to attend the service of the idols
in their pagodas . These are called for that reason , the servants of the Gods . " I have been induced to send you these particular instances of Indian contrivance , from observing
the omission of them in our popular works , which profess to describe what is curious in those countries . This is to be regretted , as the compilers of those works are , sometimes , minute enough in their account of disgusting customs , which are not always treated in the language of discretion . OT 1 OSUS .
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Mr . Astley ? concerning Josw Charley . Chesterfield , Sep . S , 1811-SlR , In the last number of tie
Monthly Repository , ( p . 458 > enquiry is made after Mr . J osiafi Chorley , My mother was of the Chorley family , and in a family piece in my possession Henry Chorley , of Preston , Is represented
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592 Mr . Astley concerning Josiah Chorley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/16/
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