Point-a-Pitre, the principal town and port, though not the capital, of Guadeloupe (q.v.), on the south-west side of Grande-Terre. It is fortified, and has some sugar-boiling. Pop. 17,000.
Point-a-Pitre
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 264
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