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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ItICAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Bombay Church or, A true account of the building and finishing the English church at Bombay''] by Richard Cobbe 1766 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_LwIAAAAQAAJ ''An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay, by the English East India Company, and of the Rise and Progress of the War with the Mahratta Nation''] by Samuel Pechel (1781) Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/originbombay00cunhgoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Origin of Bombay''] by J. Gerson da Cunha 1900 Archive.org. There is no Contents page. [http://www.archive.org/stream/originbombay00cunhgoog#page/n243/mode/2up Chapter V The Early British Period (from 1661), page 239], [http://www.archive.org/stream/originbombay00cunhgoog#page/n329/mode/2up Chapter VI the Later British Period (from 1700), page 324], [http://www.archive.org/stream/originbombay00cunhgoog#page/n371/mode/2up Index]. This book is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India, as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/38737 pdf download].*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 Bombay 1809] ''Journal of a Residence in India'' by Maria Graham, 2nd Edition (1813) Illustrated by Engravings, Google Books. [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1057 Maria Graham] ''British Travel Writing''.
*[https://archive.org/details/bombayindaysofge00drewrich ''Bombay in the days of George IV : memoirs of Sir Edward West, Chief Justice of the King's Court during its conflict with the East India Company, with hitherto unpublished documents''] by by F. Dawtrey Drewitt 1907 Archive.org. Sir Edward West arrived in Bombay in February 1823 and died there in 1828.
*''Western India in 1838'' by Mrs Postans [Marianne] 1839. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BHYEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BXYEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Volume II] Google Books. [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1113 Marianne Postans] ''British Travel Writing''. Born 1811, she was married to Thomas Postans, an officer in the Bombay Native Infantry.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=H4cIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Sketches of India: with notes on the seasons, scenery and society of Bombay, Elephanta, and Salsette''] by Henry Moses MD 1850 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dt0wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Life in Bombay, and the neighbouring out-stations''] by James Gray 1852 Google Books. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059DC0 British Library Digital Collection version], where the pages, including images, are rotatable.
