1 268 TAW—TEB..
2 calamity the population was above 150,000.* The present popu-
3 ' Kennedy, i. 81- lation is variously estimated—at below 2,000,’ at less than
4 pie ee 10,000,? at 12,000,3 15,000,4 18,000,° 20,000, and 40,000.7
5 Tutta, 8. . The number of artisans and traders ascertained (as men-
6 + pam 18... tioned above) by Wood affords grounds for estimating the
7 iil. 30, 227. population at about 10,000. atta has been supposed to be the
8 oM rdo, Jour. . . :
9 Roy. As, Soc-1634, Pattala of the ancients.® Pottinger states that the earliest men-
10 se gee tion he has found of it is in the ninety-second year of the Hegira,®
11 oe (James) but he does not give any reference to the place of such mention.
12 ®Durnes, Bokh. Burnes says, “ the antiquity of ‘atta is unquestioned.”! Outram?
13 oe assigns its foundation to 1445, but does not cite his authority.
14 as iii. 81. Macmurdo states,® from native authorities, that it was founded
15 8 Jour. Roy. As. 900 of the Hegira, or A.D. 1522. In 15554 it was pillaged and
16 ea 1834, p-39, turned by some Portuguese mercenaries. In A.H. 1000, it was,
17 4 Postans, in Jour. according to this last authority,® again destroyed in the Mogul
18 Sa pig invasion by Akbar, and never completely recovered. In 1758 a
19 bbe ae British factory was established there, and withdrawn in 1775. In
20 . 1799 an abortive attempt was made to re-establish it. The house
21 belonging to the factory is yet in good repair. In the beginning
22 of 1839 it was occupied by a British garrison. Tatta is in lat.
23 24° 44’, long. 68°.
24 E.I.C. Ms, Doc. TAWISK.—A village in Afghanistan, twelve miles south of
25 Furrah, and near the left bank of the river of the same name, in
26 lat. 32° 16’, long. 62° 2’,
27 E.LC. Ms. Doe.; TAZEEN.—A village at the eastern foot of the pass of the
28 Poe ui "0p. Huft Kotul, and in a valley of the Kurkutcha mountains, twenty-
29 Meee Nou Six miles from Kabool, on the route to Jelalabad. It was one of
30 Exp. in Afg. 296; the scenes of the prolonged and exterminating massacre of the
31 seers 7, British troops, in their attempted retreat from Kabool, in January
32 Jour, As. Soe. 1849. Here, subsequently, in September of the same year, the
33 ried Reina i British, under General Pollock, entirely defeated a greatly supe-
34 ad wens. in ary HOF force of Afghans. Elevation of the pass above the sca, 8,173:
35 of March through fect; of the valley, 6,488. Lat. 34° 21’, long. 69° 28’.
36 aa oe TEBHEE.—A village in the Punjab, situate near the right
37 ELC. Ms. Doc. bank of the river Ghara, and on the route from Mooltan to
38 Ferozpoor. Lat. 30° 7’, long. 72° 51’.
39 5
40 § 234,
41 1 359. * Pottinger! mentions, that Hamilton states that the citadel of Tatta
42 could contain 50,000 men and horses. This is indeed the number, as given
43 21.116. iu the London reprint of his work (1774),° but in tite original Edinburgh
44 34,115, edition (1727),? the number is stated with more probability at 5,000.