The height of the mountain he estimated at thirteen thousand feet.

Descending rapidly, he was overpowered with fatigue when he reached his companions, and they were soon after exposed to a violent storm of hail and rain.
The headache soon returned with increasing violence, and was followed by fever, so insidious in its progress as at no time to suggest to him his danger.

His death occurred on the 27th of September, fifteen days after the ascent, and a year after leaving his native land.
Thus he fell at the age of thirty-one, and at the very commencement of his career.

The predominant characteristics of Mr.Gridley were resolution, promptness, and generosity.

In all the duties of a Christian missionary, he was indefatigable in no ordinary degree, and his early removal was very trying.
The cause of education naturally became prominent at the outset of a mission among the Greeks.