Schools existed at Terhana, Mahuza, Maraga, and Adiabene, in Assyria, and at Maraga, in Aderbijan.

There were also schools in Elam, Persia, Korassan, and Arabia.

The school at Nisibis had a three years' course of study.
The studies to a great extent were theological; but to the study of the Bible, they added, in the schools generally, the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, dialetics, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, medicine, etc.
From Malta, Mr.and Mrs.Perkins proceeded to Constantinople, where they were cordially welcomed by Messrs.

Goodell and Dwight, near the close of the year.

After a sojourn of five months, awaiting the proper season for travelling, they took passage, in an English vessel, for Trebizond; and there they commenced their long land travel of seven hundred miles to Oroomiah.
Mrs.Perkins was the first American lady to visit Trebizond, and the inhabitants thronged the streets to gaze upon her as she passed through the city.