History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

CHAP. 1.] UNPARALLELED BENEVOLENCE. 89

famous. His charitable acts began to be publicly noticed in the year 1822, from which time until his death in the year 1859 scarcely a year passed in which he did not display in some signal manner that spirit of liberality which called forth the blessings and regard of his fellow-men, and earned for him unprecedented honours from his gracious sovereign. The capital of Western India, Surat, Navsari, and other places in Gujarat, and Khandala and Poona in the Deccan bear testimony to his liberality, philanthropy, and public spirit. Ifa stranger landed on the shores of Bombay and inquired what were the works by which Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai had acquired so much renown, it could not be long before he found them out. In the words of the Hon. Mr. Anderson, who spoke at the meeting for the purpose of erecting a public statue to which we shall hereafter refer, he would only need to glance around in order to see hospitals which, besides the tender offices they have performed for the afflicted, have in conjunction with the Grant Medical College procured for India the inestimable advantage of possessing a body of skilled native medical practitioners. He would also behold schools for the education of poor Parsis. He would see a School of Design by which a new impetus has been given to the native mind by developing another vein of talent. He would behold tanks, by which, to adopt the expres-