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Gaalse poort, is very broad and irregular, and only ten or 

 twelve houses stand there in order, to wit, as one enters 

 by the Gaalse poort, on the right hand, where the shop- 

 keeper, the cashier, the dispenser, warehouse-masters, &c. v 

 dwelt. In the middle of this street stands the church, 

 which lies north and south, and is one relic of the fifty 

 churches that in the time of the Portuguese stood in the 

 districts of Colombo, Negombo, and of Gaalen, and it did not 

 differ much from them, but was also in ruins when I was 

 there, and the ground was all marked off for the building 

 of a new one close by, but there it remained. 



The second street runs from the other corner on the east 

 side of the house of the Governor to the end of the castle. 

 This street has on the east side a moat of about 30 feet, on 

 the other side of which are houses. These two streets are 

 crossed by six others, of which the rampart in front of the 

 house of the Governor is the first ; the second street comes 

 behind the same house, against the wall of its court, at the 

 angle of which towards the west stand two offices, to wit, the 

 pay and the trade offices. Right opposite to this stands the 

 house of the second person, and at the other angle the house 

 of the Major, that was kept empty for the lodging therein 

 of the Ambassadors of the King. Beside these stood two 

 other fine houses. The third street was very bad, into* 

 which the gardens of the above houses had exit. The 

 fourth street was the finest of all : in it were 2 or 3 

 lodgings of Europeans, and the rest were mostly Toepasses 

 and Blacks. The fifth street did not run right through, but 

 stopped at the courts of the row of houses in which lived 

 the shopkeeper, the dispenser, and the cashier. In this street 

 stood the hospital and the house of the head surgeon. The* 

 rest were all miserable hovels, as were also all the houses of 

 the same 50 street, which also had the above-mentioned 

 moat for a neighbour at their doors, which runs right past 

 the Gaalse poort, over which one goes by a built stone bridge,, 

 and so proceeds as far as the rampart on the west side of the 

 castle. Between this moat and the rampart on the south 



