Point de Galle, a town on a promontory in the SW. of Ceylon, with a good harbour, and the great port of call for the lines of steamers in the Eastern waters.
Population (circa 1900) given as 33,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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