She says, "A servant woman of Mrs.Whiting, who has now lived long enough with her to love her and appreciate her principles, about a year and a half since remarked to some of the Arabs, that the people with whom she lived did 'not lie, nor steal, nor quarrel, nor do any such things; but poor creatures,' said she, 'they have no religion.'" On the 22d of October, she wrote again, "Yesterday I went up to Mr.
Bird's to consult about the plan of a _school-house now commenced for females_.

I can hardly believe that such a project is actually in progress, and I hail it as the dawn of a happy change in Syria.

Two hundred dollars have been subscribed by friends in this vicinity, and I told Mr.B.that if necessary he might expend fifty more upon the building, as our Sabbath School in Norwich had pledged one hundred a year for female education in Syria." The principal contributor to this fund was Mrs.Alexander Tod, formerly Miss Gliddon, daughter of the U.S.Consul in Alexandria.
The building stood near where the present Church in Beirut stands, and was removed, and the stones used in the extension of the old Chapel.

In the year 1866 Mr.Tod revisited Beirut and contributed L100 towards the erection of the new Female Seminary, saying that as Mrs.Tod aided in the first Female Seminary building in Beirut, he wished to aid in the second.

The school-house was a plain structure, and was afterwards used as a boy's school, and the artist who photographed the designs printed in this volume received his education there under the instruction of the late Shahin Sarkis, husband of Azizy.
In the latter part of October, 1834, Mrs.Smith writes, "Yesterday I commenced the female school with four scholars, which were increased to ten to-day, and the number will probably continue to augment as before from week to week.