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Torbay

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Tor·bay  (tôr-b, tôrb)
A borough of southwest England east-northeast of Plymouth. Population: 62,900.
Torbay [ˌtɔːˈbeɪ]
n
1. (Placename) a unitary authority in SW England, in Devon, consisting of Torquay and two neighbouring coastal resorts. Pop.: 129 702 (2001). Area: 63 sq. km (24 sq. miles)
2. (Placename) Also Tor Bay an inlet of the English Channel on the coast of SW England, near Torquay


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“I’ve often heard of that Bay of State,” said Benjamin, “but can’t say that I’ve ever been in it, nor do I know exactly whereaway it is that it lays; but I suppose there is good anchorage in it, and that it’s no bad place for the taking of ling; but for size it can’t be so much as a yawl to a sloop of war compared with the Bay of Biscay, or, mayhap, Torbay.
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One was taken by the Algerines, and the other was lost on the Start, near Torbay, and all the people drowned except three; so that in either of those vessels I had been made miserable.
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