A very considerable number of copies had been put in circulation from Aleppo to Hebron and Gaza, and many of them had been in the hands of the people for more than ten years.

It is not known indeed how much they had been used; but where there had been no personal intercourse with missionaries, not a single radical conversion of the soul unto God had come to the knowledge of the missionaries.
Commodore Patterson visited Beirut during the summer with the U.S.
ship _Delaware_ and schooner _Shark_; principally, as he said, to do honor to the mission, and to convince the people that it had powerful friends.
Ten interesting young men placed themselves under the tuition of Dr.
Dodge to learn English, and Mr.Smith gave them lessons in geography and astronomy, of which they knew almost as little as of English.

A school taught by Taunus el Haddad was converted into a girls' school.

A female school was also opened by the ladies of the mission, assisted by the widow of Wortabet, for which a house was erected by the subscriptions of foreign residents.

The school contained twenty-nine pupils, of whom three were Moslem children, and one a Druse, and no opposition was made to it.