Having in a manner completed the tour of Palestine and Syria, and having become quite at home in Arabic grammar, he felt more than ever the need of a dictionary to introduce the missionary to the spoken language of the country.

The ponderous folios of Richardson are for Persia; Golius, and the smaller work of Willmet, explain only the written language.

We were therefore of the unanimous opinion, that a lexicon like the one in contemplation by Mr.Fisk, was needed, not only by ourselves, but by the missionaries who should succeed us.

Our dear brother had written the catalogue of English words according to Johnson, and had just finished the catalogue (incomplete of course) of the corresponding Arabic, when disease arrested him.

Had he lived, he hoped to visit his native country, and probably publish some account of his Christian researches in the Levant.
"Such were some of the plans and employments of our brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, when he was called off from all his labors of love among men.