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Rh beech, inhaling the sea breezes from the coast near Emsworth. They worshipped too in the old chapel inside the park, which Mr. Way had recently restored in almost a Jewish style, with an outer court and with the old and new covenants inscribed on marble tablets.

It was not possible for Simeon, who had only his Fellow's rooms at King's College, to receive his god-son at Cambridge. But James spent much of his holidays with his grandmother, Mrs. Dornford, there. He certainly went with Simeon on one of the several tours that were made in Scotland, and probably also on the Continent of Europe once when evangelizing efforts regarding the Jews were being made.

Having obtained from the Directors of the East India Company an appointment as writer, that is, as a member of their Covenanted Civil Service in Bengal. James entered their College at Haileybury, near Hertford, in a picturesque and salubrious situation, with a professorial staff of the highest order, and a curriculum embracing not only all the subjects ordinarily taken in English colleges, but also several Oriental languages and some course of Indian history. He distinguished himself, not only in literary subjects, but also in mathematics and political economy. The college course of two years completed, he sailed to rejoin his parents in India. He was accompanied, as they had been on their sailing for India, by Simeon until the ship was being left by the pilot at sea. He arrived at Calcutta in Sept. 1822, being a little over