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*''The travels of Pietro della Valle in India : from the old English translation of 1664'', edited by Edward Grey (late Bengal Civil Service) 1892 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/travelsofpietrod00dell Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelspietrode00havegoog Volume II]. Pietro della Valle arrived in India 10 February 1623 at Surat, embarking from Goa 16 November 1624.
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_32096 ''A geographical description of the four parts of the world taken from the notes & workes of the famous Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the french king, and other eminent travellers and authors. To which are added the commodities, coyns, weights, and measures of the chief places of traffick in the world, compared with those of England, (or London) as to the trade thereof. Also, a treatise of travel, and another of traffick, wherein the matter of trade is briefly handled: the whole illustrated with variety of useful and delightful mapps and figures''] by Richard Blome 1670 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/cihm_32096#page/n67/mode/2up India] page 49. “His atlas is full of information that merchants needed to conduct business overseas, with sections on each part of the world. The section on ‘India or the East Indies’ gives details of goods available at important trading centres such as Surat, the East India Company’s first base in India. Other information vital to traders is explained, for instance on coins, weights and measures. <ref>[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/09/east-india-company-trade-with-the-east-indies.html East India Company trade with the East Indies] 05 September 2017 British Library Untold Lives Blog.</ref> Unfortunately the text may be difficult to read at times. Also available in the Gale subscription database "The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories|Subscription websites]], for suggested access, as possibly the text may be clearer.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Includes Surat.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NmpCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 ''A Voyage to Suratt: In the Year, 1689''] by John Ovington. Chaplain to his Majesty. 1696 Google Books
:[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/11892 ''A Voyage To Surat In The Year 1689''] by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929 is available to download as a pdf from [[Online books|Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]. Restricted download hours may possibly apply. This book is also available on the Digital Library of India as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/234161 pdf download] , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.234161 Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=71UOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA317 "Origin of the English Establishment, and of the Company's Trade, at Broach and at Surat"] page 317 ''Historical fragments of the Mogul empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan from the year MDCLIX; origin of the company's trade at Broach and Surat, and a general idea of the government and people of Indostan; to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author'' by Robert Orme 1805 Google Books. First published 1782
*[http://archive.org/stream/britishbeginning00rawlrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''British Beginnings in Western India 1579-1657 : An account of the early days of the British factory at Surat''] by H G Rawlinson MA (1920) archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/458/mode/2up "Surat"] page 458 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
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