When about to return, the bishop offered prayer in the English language, and thus they parted, not all to meet again.
Athanasius wrote a letter to Dr.Grant from Malabar, but with a date nearly a year subsequent to Dr.Grant's death, in which he stated, that his people had welcomed him with great joy, and gladly received the Word of God.1 1 _Dr.Grant and the Mountain Nestorians_, p.

219.
Dr.Grant crossed the plain of Arbela, where Alexander conquered Persia, and in ten days arrived at Oroomiah.

Being impatient to get into the mountains, the mission assembled immediately, and delegated Mr.Stocking to accompany him.

Dr.Wright said of him, at this time, that "his spirits were buoyant, his step elastic, and his energy untiring." Two Nestorians went with them, and they had letters from the governor and some Persian nobles to the Persian Khan and the Emir of the Hakary Koords.

At Khosrawa, Mr.Stocking was constrained by sickness to return; and both the native assistants were so alarmed by the warlike aspect of things, that they declined going farther.