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vinces of India, whose erudition and researches have-
placed him in the front rank of living Sanskrit scholars;
and, also, Dr. Kern, Professor of Sanskrit in the Uni-
versity of Leyden, once shed a lustre on the College,
as Anglo-Sanskrit Professors. Seven hundred youths
receive instruction, the number having considerably
increased under the able management of its present
Principal. There are two distinct and separate depart-
ments in the College, namely, Sanskrit and English.
The Sanskrit College was founded by the Government
of India, in the year 1791, and is regarded as the
Oxford of India, in respect of the cultivation of
Hindu learning. The number of students in the
English department has more than doubled of late
years.
Within the surrounding grounds, and lying to the
north of the College, is a monolith, thirty-one and a
half feet high, which was discovered near Ghazeepore,
and was placed there by order, and at the expense,
of Mr. Thomason, late Lieutenant-Governor of the
ISTorth-Western Provinces. It bears an inscription,
somewhat defaced, in the Gupta character.
A short distance from Queen's College is the [Normal
School, established, by the Government, for the train-
ing of village schoolmasters. It is under the superin-
tendence of D. Tresham, Esq., a gentleman of great
ability and perseverance as a teacher, who has been, for
many years, a faithful and very efficient servant of the
Government. Every year about one hundred and twenty
young men become qualified for appointments as teachers.
In Benares there are three Missions,—belonging to
vinces of India, whose erudition and researches have-
placed him in the front rank of living Sanskrit scholars;
and, also, Dr. Kern, Professor of Sanskrit in the Uni-
versity of Leyden, once shed a lustre on the College,
as Anglo-Sanskrit Professors. Seven hundred youths
receive instruction, the number having considerably
increased under the able management of its present
Principal. There are two distinct and separate depart-
ments in the College, namely, Sanskrit and English.
The Sanskrit College was founded by the Government
of India, in the year 1791, and is regarded as the
Oxford of India, in respect of the cultivation of
Hindu learning. The number of students in the
English department has more than doubled of late
years.
Within the surrounding grounds, and lying to the
north of the College, is a monolith, thirty-one and a
half feet high, which was discovered near Ghazeepore,
and was placed there by order, and at the expense,
of Mr. Thomason, late Lieutenant-Governor of the
ISTorth-Western Provinces. It bears an inscription,
somewhat defaced, in the Gupta character.
A short distance from Queen's College is the [Normal
School, established, by the Government, for the train-
ing of village schoolmasters. It is under the superin-
tendence of D. Tresham, Esq., a gentleman of great
ability and perseverance as a teacher, who has been, for
many years, a faithful and very efficient servant of the
Government. Every year about one hundred and twenty
young men become qualified for appointments as teachers.
In Benares there are three Missions,—belonging to