Point de Galle
Britishnoun
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Three hours after our arrival at Point de Galle I sat properly stowed away in the mail-coach en route for Colombo.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
Next to Colombo, Point de Galle, with a population of about thirty-three thousand, is the most important town in the island.
From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray
The pleasantest way to accomplish this circuit is to take the boat at Point de Galle, the first place at which it is desirable to land being Batticaloa, the capital of the eastern province.
From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray
One may behold a sort of Neptune's Garden at many points, similar to, but not quite equaling, that described at Point de Galle.
From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray
GALLE, or Point de Galle, a town and port of Ceylon on the south-west coast.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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