Colombo Sentence Examples

Colombo stands to the south of the mouth of the river Kelani.

The Kotahena temple is the chief Buddhist temple in Colombo.

A service of the British India Steam Navigation Company's steamers has been established between Negapatam and Colombo through Palk Strait and this narrow passage.

In Ceylon the Religious and Theological Magazine was started at Colombo in 1833, the Colombo Magazine in 1839, the Ceylon Magazine in 1840, and the Investigator at Kandy in 1841.

To the north-east of the Fort is the Lake, a ramifying sheet of fresh water, which adds greatly to the beauty of the site of Colombo, its banks being clothed with luxuriant foliage and flowers.

South-east of this is the principal residential quarter of Colombo, with the circular Victoria Park as its centre.

In the park is the fine Colombo Museum, founded by Sir William Gregory l; and near the neighbouring Campbell Park are the handsome buildings of a number of institutions, such as Wesley College, and the General, Victoria Memorial Eye and other hospitals.

Under Britishrule Colombo has shared in the prosperity brought to the island by the successive industri e s of coffee and teaplanting.

Tea, oni the contrary, is prepared and packed on the estates; but there is a considerable amount of work still done in the Colombo stores in sorting, blending and repacking such teas as are sold at the local public sales; also in dealing with cacao, cardainoms, cinchona bark and the remnant still left of the coffee indiustry.

But it is to its position as one of the great ports of call of the East that Colombo owes its great and increasing importance.

These improvements caused Galle to be abandoned as a port of call for steamers in favour of Colombo, while Trincomalee has been abandoned as a naval station.

Colombo was originally known as the Kalantotta or Kalany ferry.

The Australian demand is fed by steamers from Calcutta and Colombo, with some additions direct from China and Java.

There is a regular fortnightly steamship service between Marseilles and Port Louis by the Messageries Maritimes, a four-weekly service with Southampton via Cape Town by the Union Castle, and a four-weekly service with Colombo direct by the British India Co.'s boats.

For correspondence of Innocent see Colombo, Notizie biogr.

There is one terrible monument that greets visitors on the road from Colombo to Galle.

The cost was about the same as the normal return flight ticket to Colombo, could n't be better.