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the southeast end of Bombay Island or pen-ir.sula and bordering on the harbor within and on Back Bay without. Its harbor is one of the finest in the world, having a space,

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which is used for shipping, eleven miles long by four broad. Among the cities of India it is the most European in appearance. Besides the business blocks and the suburban homes of many of the European residents, there are on the esplanade facing Back Bay, the university, senate hall, high court, offices of public works and a sailors' home; while east of Back Bay, near the fort, are the town hall, mint, cathedral and custom-house. The terminus of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway is the finest building in Bombay. Bombay is also the terminus of the Baroda Railway. An extensive system of wharves and docks provides for its enormous foreign trade, which now surpasses that of Calcutta. Wheat, shawls, opium, coffee, pepper, ivory and gems are the products exported. There are sixty large steam mills, while added to the chief industries are dyeing, tanning and working in metals. The island was owned by the Portuguese in the i6th century and was ceded to England in 1661 as part of the dowry of Catherine, bride of Charles II. The population is 972,892. The British presidency of Bombay has an area of 123,-064 square miles, with a population of 18,-550,561, including Sind and Aden.

Bonaparte, Charles Joseph, lawyer and reformer, was born in Baltimore, June 9, 1861. He is the grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, whose romantic marriage to Elizabeth Patterson was practically annulled by Napoleon, Mr. Bonaparte was admitted to the bar in 1874, and soon became prominent as a political reformer. He is chairman of the council of

the National Civil Reform League and president of the National Municipal League. He was a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1902-04; Secretary of the Navy, July, i9o5-December, 1906; and since December 17, 1906, has been attorney-general of the United States.

Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, the first wife of Jerome Bonapart, was born at Baltimore, Md., Feb. 6, 1785, and died there April 4, 1879. As Napoleon I refused for reasons of state to recognize the marriage with his brother Jerome, which had taken place in December, 1803, and prevented the lady from landing in France, when she accompanied her husband to Europe, Mme, Jerome Bonaparte was compelled to seek an asylum in England, during which, at the instigation of the great emperor, she Was divorced from Jerome and afterward returned to the United States.

Bonaparte, Jerome, youngest brother of Napoleon I and at one time king of Westphalia, was born at Ajaccio in November, 1784, and died near Paris in June, 1860. Early in life he became a midshipman in the French navy, and in 1801, when on an expedition to the West Indies, his ship was chased by English cruisers and Jerome Bonaparte had to take refuge in New York. Toward the close of 1803, while still sojourning in America and not yet twenty, he married Elizabeth Patterson, daughter of the president of a Baltimore bank, a marriage which his brother, the emperor, refused, however, to recognize, and it was declared null and void. In 1807 his brother created him king of Westphalia, and he then married Catherine Sophia, princess of Wiirt-temberg. The battle of Leipsic (October, 1813), which virtually secured the liberation of Germany, cost Jerome his kingdom and made him an European wanderer until the advent of his nephew, Louis Napoleon. After the coup d' etat, Napoleon III made him a marshal of France, president of the senate and governor-general of Les In-valides.

Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain, member of a famous family and eldest brother of Napoleon, was born at Corte, in Corsica, in 1768. He proved his ability in a number of important offices, among other services negotiating a treaty of friendship with the United States in 1800. After the coronation of Napoleon, Joseph was made commander-in-chief of the ^ army of Naples, then ruler of the two Sicilies and in 1806 king of Naples. Two years later he was transferred to the throne of Spain, but found himself unable to suppress the Spanish insurgents, and after the defeat of the French, in 1813, returned to France. After the battle of Waterloo, he came to America, became a citizen of Bordentown, N. J., and followed the pursuit of agriculture. He returned to