Colombo, the capital of Ceylon, and the chief port on the W. coast; it is surrounded on three sides by the sea, and on the other by a lake and moat; is supplied with water and gas; has many fine buildings; has a very mixed population, and has belonged to Britain since 1796; communicates with Kandy by railway.
Population (circa 1900) given as 126,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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