When Dr.Grant arrived there, with clothes worn and ragged from the roughness of the journey, he had the happiness of meeting Dr.
Wright, then on his way to Oroomiah.

The two brethren called on the gentlemen of the Persian embassy, then at Erzroom, and one of them, observing Dr.Grant's erect and commanding person, remarked that a good soldier was spoiled when that man became a missionary.

At Trebizond he gladly exchanged the saddle for the quiet of the steamer, which took him to Constantinople, and he arrived at Boston on the 3d of October.
Having embraced the theory, that the Nestorians are descendants of the lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Dr.Grant, with characteristic industry, employed such time as he could command during his missionary travels and his homeward voyage, in preparing a volume in support of these views.

It was published both in this country and in England, and attracted considerable attention.

The celebrated Dr.
Edward Robinson deemed it deserving of an elaborate discussion in the "American Biblical Repository," in which he makes a strong argument against the theory.1 1 See _American Biblical Repository_, 1841, vol.vi.of new series, pp.