Show INDIAN BIBLE at the age of 43 42 john ellot eliot pastor of a church at roxbury mass began the study of the natick indian dialect with a view of trani translating lating the bible into thet that language he completed the translation in 1658 alter after a labor of eight years and the book was issued in 1663 upwards of 0 one thousand copies were printed of which twenty I 1 copies were dedicated to king charles of england the latter copies are so rare that one of them was sold in the U S a few years ago for 1150 among the many points of interest which eliote radian indian bible possesses I 1 not the least is the fact that it is the 0 language of it a nation no longer in existence and is almost the only monument of the race another that it is the first edition of the bible published in this country |