CAREY, Dn. W., a celebrated missionary at Serampore. He landed in Calcutta on the 11t11 November 1793. Ile was the son of a parish clerk. Ile joined Messrs. Ward and Marshman at Serampore on the 10th January 1800. His whole life was passed in the translation of the Scriptures into the languages of India ; his whole career was marked with a passionate desire to reveal Christ to men who knew him not. His strong natural benevolence had been intensified by deep piety.
do not know,' says Wilberforce, 'a finer instance of the moral sublime, than that a poor cobbler working in his stall should conceive the idea of converting the Hindus to Christianity, yet such was Dr. Carey.' • • Carey translated the Bible into Kashmir', Multani, Dogri, Sindi, Garhwali, Kamaoni, Kanouji, Kosali, Magadhi, Bhugeli, Bhatti, Jypuri, Bikaniri, Mar wari, Harouti, Udaipuri, Ujjaini, Nepali, Palpa, Assamese, Mahratti, Gujerati, Konkan), Manipuri; and Khasi, mostly Hindi dialects.
Carey and Leyden, into Pushtu, Baluchi.
Carey and Newton, into Panjabi.
Carey and Chamberlain, into Braj.
Carey and Sutton, into Assamese.
Carey and Taylor, into Mahratti.
Carey, Lisle, and Jones, into Khasi.
He founded the Agri-llorticultural Society of Bengal in 1820. He advertised that a meeting would be held in Serampore, but at the hour appointed only himself and two brother missionaries were present. But he voted himself into the chair ; the proceedings were published, with the secretary and treasurer's names, and the society began. He was author of State of Agriculture in Dinajpore, in As. Res. vol. vi. ; Geographical Notices of Seram pore, As. Jl. 1835, ii. 55.—Tr. of a Hindoo.