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Title: The life of John Wilson, D.D., F.R.S. : for fifty years philanthropist and scholar in the East
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1833-1919
Subjects: Wilson, John, 1804-1875 Missionaries
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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n Rock of Baal, which Hiram enlarged andadorned, the island of the goddess Mumbai or Mahima, theGreat Mother, was originally one of a series of rocks whichthe British Government has connected into a long peninsula,with an area of 18 scpiare miles. Like the greater port whichAlexander created to take the place of Tyre, and called by hisown name, Bombay carries in its ships the commerce of theMediterranean, opened to it by the Suez Canal, but it bearsthat also of the vaster Lidian Ocean and Persian GulfAlthough it can boast of no river like the Nile, by whichalone Alexandria now exists, Bombay possesses a natural har-bour, peerless alike in West and East, such as all the capitaland the engineering of modern science can never create forthe land of Egypt. Instead of the low sands wdiich gaveCanaan its name, and the muddy flats of the Kile delta, Bom-bay presents ridge after ridge intersecting noble bays, and hillupon hill, rising up into the guardian range of the Western iiTD I A.ir Walke
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SCALE. Vz 34. 1 Mae C jopei- &.-HDdsanILii_aniiari. 1829.) THE MODEEX TYEE. 25 Ghauts. From their giant defiles and green terraces fed bythe periodic rains, the whole tableland of the Indian peninsulagently slopes eastward to the Bay of Bengal, seamed bymighty rivers, and covered by countless forts and villages, thehomes of a toiling population of millions. On one fourth, andthat the most fertile fourth, of the two centuries of Bombayshistory, John Wilson, more than any other single influence,has left his mark for ever. From the Periplus, and from Marco Polo, we learn thecommercial prosperity and ecclesiastical activity, in the ear-liest times, of the kingdoms of Broach, Callian, and Tanna,on the mainland and around Bombay. But, as an island,Bombay was too exposed to the pirates who, from Abyssinia,Arabia and India alike, scoured these Eastern seas, to beother than neglected. Even the Portuguese despised it,although, as a naval power, they early made a settlementthere, seeing that

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