HONOURABLE / MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE / MEMBER OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE / GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY, / AND HISTORIAN OF EARLY INDIA / BORN MDCCLXXIX: DIED MDCCCLIX. / THIS MONUMENT / WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION / IN ADMIRATION OF HIS CHARACTER / AND IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS SERVICES. / MDCCCLXIII.
