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The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce: A New Chronicle for the Eastern Trade
It is with a measure of cautious optimism that we note the recent establishment of The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, a weekly broadsheet now circulating through the ports and presidencies of the East Indies. Founded in the year 1838 by Mr. James Silk Buckingham and his associates, this journal has already begun to furnish the merchant and the curious reader with tidings of shipping, markets, and the peculiar customs of that distant clime. Our own correspondents in Bombay report that the paper is printed upon a steam-driven press of recent invention, a marvel that permits a rapidity of …
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