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Page 108 of the Victoria Regina Atlas, featuring Bombay in the bottom right corner.

Composite image of the four friezes on the front of the Thomas Cook Building in Leicester, England. The panels depict excursions offered by the travel company; the building is Grade II listed.

The Parsi Gymkhana, a social and sporting club on Marine Drive in Mumbai. The club was founded to serve the Parsi community in Bombay.

Mumbai Map Legend representing transportation

"Phoenix Mills 2" by Rakesh Krishna Kumar - originally posted to Flickr as Phoenix Mills. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix_Mills_2.jpg#/media/File:Phoenix_Mills_2.jpg

This is a map of Bombay in the year 1764

i. The chosen map is one made by the navigator Captain Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) in 1764 and was published in 1980 in the atlas compiled by Susan Gole in New Delhi of “Early Printed Maps of India.” We will focus on the leftmost map titled…

This map is a map of Bombay's seven original islands created by Captain Jacques Bellin in 1764.

Portion of map legend that depicts points of interest