Note 1 — CHAP. II
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: Kalah may possibly be identical with the Singhalese word gala, which means an "enclosure," and the deeply bayed harbour of Galle would serve to justify the name. Galla signifies a rock, and this derivation would be equally sustained by the natural features of the place, and dangerous coral reefs which obstruct the entrance to the port.
2: DULAURIER, in the Journal Asiatique for Sept. 1846, vol. xlix. p. 209, has brought together the authorities of Aboulfeda, Kazwini, and others to show that Kalah be situated in Ceylon, and he has combated the conjecture of M. Alfred Maury that it may be identical with Kedsh in the Malay Peninsula.—REINAUD, Relation, &c. Disc., pp. xli.—lxxxiv., Introd. ABOULFEDA, p. ccxviii.