trombay

Updated: July 4, 2026

Bombay is part of a considerable group of islands, the most remarkable of which are Salsetta, joined to Bombay by a mole, Elephanta, so named by the Portuguese because of a huge rock cut in the shape of an elephant thirty-five feet long, and Trombay, whose lovely rock rises nine hundred feet above the surface of the sea.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan