...has been for fome years in the India Company's civil fervice in Bengal, was obliged to charge himlelf with all the various occupations of the metallurgist, the engraver, the founder, and the printer. Every purchafer of the Bengal Grammar will readily acknowledge Mr. Wilkins's (uccefs in this undertaking,...

...experiments in that way. He did so; and the workwas brought out in the year 1778, though Mr. Wilkins was "obliged to charge himself with all the various occupations...metallurgist, the engraver, the founder, and the printer." The attempt to prepare a fount of Bengali types in London had, previously, "egregiously failed:" we...

...of Bengali types. He did and his success has exceeded every expectation. In a country so remote from European artists, he has been obliged to charge himself...With a rapidity unknown in Europe, he surmounted all obstacles which necessarily clog the first rudiments of a difficult art as well as the disadvantages...