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

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than that the work should stop, increased her donation to a lakh of rupees (100,000), and, on it being intimated to her that even this sum was insufficient to defray the expenses of items of outlay which had not been included in the estimate, contributed a further sum of Rs.10,000 shortly after her previous contribution. The Court of Directors were then applied to by the existing Government; but Lady Jamshedji, fearmg a delay in such an application, further added to her former subscriptions the several sums of Rs.4,000, Rs.6,000, and Rs.10,000, making a total gift to this most useful and most important undertaking of the sum of Rs.130,000. The reply of the Court of Directors, with the usual liberality for which they are famed, more particularly in any object tending to promote the welfare and prosperity of the natives of this country, acceded to the request that all further expense should be defrayed by them, and the work went on, advancing rapidly towards completion. Only the day before yesterday I heard that a handsome approach was suggested to the causeway, and that the want of further funds prohibited its being carried into execution. I have since been informed that on this circumstance reaching the ear of Lady Jamshedji, she, with her usual unbounded liberality, immediately consented to defray the expense, estimated at about Rs.22,000, in addition to a former Rs.5,000 required for the embankment, etc., thus