It was prepared from two translations, one by Mr.Goodell, with the efficient aid of Bishop Carabet, the other by an Armenian priest at Constantinople, in the employ of Mr.Leeves, agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Mr.Goodell's version was made conformable to the original Greek, and the last sheet was printed in January, 1831.

During that year, there were printed seventy-eight thousand copies of fourteen works, amounting to nearly five millions of pages, all in modern Greek.

The whole amount of printing at Malta, from the establishment of the press in July, 1822, to December, 1833, the time of its removal to Smyrna, was about three hundred and fifty thousand volumes, containing twenty-one millions of pages.

Nearly the whole were put in circulation, and additional supplies of some of the books were urgently demanded.