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 Old Testament, and that they were printed in 1663). 10. ‘Wehkomaonganooa asquam Peantogig kah asquam Quinnuppegig,’ &c., Cambridge, M. Johnson, 1664, 8vo (translation of Baxter's ‘Call to the Unconverted,’ not one of the one thousand copies printed for the ‘Corporation’ is known to exist; reissued in 1688). 11. ‘Communion of Churches, or the Divine Management of Gospel Churches by the Ordinance of Councils, constituted in order according to the Scriptures,’ Cambridge, M. Johnson, 1665, 8vo (very rare; the first American privately printed book). 12. ‘Manitowompae Pomantamoonk Sampwshanam Christianoh,’ &c., Cambridge, S. Green, 1665, sm. 8vo (translation for the ‘Corporation’ of Bishop Lewis Bayly's ‘Practice of Piety;’ again in 1685 and 1687). 13. ‘The Book of Genesis and the Gospel of Matthew in the Indian Language,’ Cambridge, S. Green, 1665 (mentioned by Thomas (Printing, ii. 315), but no copy known). 14. ‘The Indian Grammar begun, or an essay to bring the Indian Language into rules,’ Cambridge, M. Johnson, 1666, 4to (dedicated to R. Boyle and the ‘Corporation,’ very scarce, five hundred copies printed; Thomas cannot have seen a copy, as he only (p. 68) mentions an unknown edition of 1664 of about 60 pp.; new edition by P. S. Du Ponceau, Boston, 1822). 15. ‘The Indian Primer, or the way of training up youth of India in the knowledge of God,’ Cambridge, 1669, 24mo (the only known copy is in the library of the university of Edinburgh, see ,, p. 40). 16. ‘Indian Dialogues,’ Cambridge, 1671, square 16mo (copies in Bodleian and Lenox Libraries). 17. ‘The Logick Primer, some logical notions to initiate the Indians in the knowledge of the rule of reason, and to know how to make use thereof, especially for the instruction of such as are teachers among them, composed for the use of the Praying Indians’ [Cambridge] M. J[honson], 1672, 32mo (in Indian, with interlinear translation, copies in the Bodleian and the British Museum). 18. ‘The Harmony of the Gospels, in the History of the Humiliation and Sufferings of Jesus Christ from his Incarnation to his Death and Burial,’ Boston, J. Foster, 1678, 4to. 19. ‘A Brief Answer to a small book by John Norcot on Infant Baptism,’ Boston, 1679, 8vo (Lenox copy unique). 20. ‘Dying Speeches of several Indians,’ Cambridge [about 1680], 18mo (Lenox copy unique; reprinted in ‘Sabbath at Home,’ 1868, p. 333, and partly in Dunton's ‘Letters,’ Prince Soc. 1867). 21. ‘Shepard's Sincere Convert translated into the Indian Language,’ Cambridge, 1689, sm. 8vo (‘Sampwutteahae Quinnuppekompauaenin,’ &c.).

 ELIOT, THOMAS (1490?–1546), diplomatist and author. [See ,]

ELIOTT, DANIEL (1798–1872), Indian civilian, fourth son of Sir William Eliott, sixth baronet of Stobs, Roxburghshire, was born on 3 March 1798. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and, having received a nomination for the East India Company's civil service, proeeeded to Madras in 1817. He soon showed a decided aptitude for the study of Indian languages and Indian law. In 1822 he was appointed deputy Tamil translator, and in 1823 Maráthá translator to the Madras government, and deputy secretary to the board of revenue. In 1827 he became secretary to the board of revenue, and in 1836 a member of the board. In December 1838 he was nominated, on account of his profound knowledge of the laws and customs of the