_Bengal._― (or Modern Sanskrit), a corruption of the older characters of the Hindoos, the ancient inhabitants of Bengal. OCCIDENTALS: _Greek._― English, Long Primer, Brevier. _Roman and Italic._― _sicut et reliqui._ SEPTENTRIONALS: _English._― 2-line Great Primer. _Scriptorial._― Double Pica, nearly finished. “He has likewise Proscription letters beginning at 12-line Pica, the same with those of Mr. Cottrell, the first who cut letters of this dimension.” With regard to the Bengalee letter, Rowe Mores states that this was cut by Jackson “for Mr. William Bolts, Judge of the Mayor’s Court of Calcutta, for a work in which he had been engaged at the time of his sudden departure from England about 1774.”[648] {318} The work here referred to was the _Grammar of the Bengal Language_, projected by the East India Company as part of a scheme for the dissemination of a knowledge of the Indian Languages in Europe. It appears, however, that although Mr. Bolts was supposed to be in every way competent for the fabrication of this intricate character, his models, as copied by Jackson, failed to give satisfaction, and the work was for the time abandoned;[649] to be revived and executed some few years later in a more masterly and accurate manner by Mr. Charles Wilkins,[650] then in the service of the East India Company in Bengal, {319} who with an extraordinary combination of talents, succeeded, by the work of his own hand, in designing, engraving, casting and printing the _Grammar_ published at Hoogly in 1778. Mr. Bolts’ failure in this particular reflects no discredit on Jackson, who faithfully reproduced the models given him, and who displayed his talent in the same direction shortly after by the production of a fount of Deva Nagari, cut under the direction of Captain William Kirkpatrick, of the East India Service, and Persian Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief for India, for the purpose of printing a _Grammar and Dictionary_ in that language. Of this fount a specimen remains—the only specimen extant, we believe, bearing Jackson’s name. It is a broadside, displaying in table form the alphabet and combinations of the Sanscrit, and exhibits no small delicacy of workmanship, not only in the Oriental character itself, but in the few lines of Roman letter composing the title. There is no date to the specimen. Captain Kirkpatrick’s _Dictionary_ was never completed. One part only appeared in 1785,[651] containing the Glossary of the Arabic and Persian words incorporated with the Hindu, and in this no Nagari is used. All the remaining parts of the work, as first projected, depended on the new type; but as they never appeared, the object for which the fount was cut was lost.