Galveston, the chief seaport of Texas, situated on a low island of the same name at the entrance of Galveston Bay into the Gulf of Mexico; it has a splendid harbour, and is an important centre of the cotton trade, ranking as the third cotton port of the world; the city is well laid out, and is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop; it has a medical college and several foundries.
Population (circa 1900) given as 38,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Galvani, Luigi * Galway