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592 Many of the works printed at Malacca, Penang, and Singapore, have not been regularly reported, or the record of the work done is not to be found in this country; so that it is difficult to ascertain at this dis- tance the number of pages or the quantity printed of several publications specified in the foregoing lists: still, as far as the account can be made up, it appears that there have been printed, from the year 1810 to the year 1836,

Including 2,075 complete Chinese Bibles, 9,970 New Testaments, and 31,000 separate portions of Scripture; with 2,000 Malay Testaments, and 2,000 separate Gospels in the same language. If the number of pages of each work be reckoned with the amount printed off, it will be seen that the brethren in the Ultra-Ganges missions have issued from their presses in those regions upwards of eight million pages of religious publications in the Chinese and Malayan languages.