1 TIB—TOB. 271
2 It is situate on an offset of the Indus, and about four miles east of
3 the main channel. Lat. 31° 18’, long. 71°.
4 TIBEE, in the Punjab, a smail town about five miles from the vigne, Ghuznee,
5 western bank of the Ghara. Lat. 30° 6’, long. 72° 47’. en
6 TIGADEE.—See Turcuurresz.
7 TIRA, or SHAH JEHANPUR, a town and stronghold in the Moorer. Punj.
8 north-east part of the Punjab, is situate,on a rock of sandstone, Fee nes
9 several miles in circumference and flat at top. The Beas flows })1' ragenls
10 along its base on one side, and on every other it is surrounded by 1. 429.
11 precipices eighty or a hundred feet high. It contains about twelve.
12 or fifteen hundred houses, and five thousand inhabitants. It was
13 formerly the residence of Sansar Chand, the independent rajah of
14 Kotoch, who at one time had a revenue of 350,000/., and was so
15 powerful as to rival Runjeet Singh. After the death of Sansar
16 Chand, his descendants were dispossessed by Runjeet Singh, who
17 took possession of Tira, which is still bald by the Sikhs. Lat.
18 31° 36’, long. 76° 26’.
19 TISSA.—A village situate in the Shighur valley, in Northern Vigne, Map of
20 Bultistan. Lat. 35° 33’, long. 75° 20’. Kashmir.
21 TOBA, in Afghanistan, an irregular range of rocky mountains, a aot aa
22 ph. Acc. o
23 extending northwards from the north side of the valley of Pisheen. caybui, 105.
24 They are about a hundred and fifty miles in length, and a hundred
25 in breadth, and lie between lat. 30° 40’—32° 40’, long. 66° 40’—
26 68° 20’. They are estimated to have an elevation of about nine
27 thousand feet above the sea,? or between three and four thousand ? Kennedy, Sinde
28 above the valley of Pisheen. The country overspread by these "4 Koh | $28.
29 mountains, though in general rugged, has many fertile and plea-
30 sant spots. According to native report received by Conolly,? * Jour. to India,
31 “* between the long and severe winters which the inhabitants of ' 7) 126
32 these hills experience, they enjoy a very delicious climate. The
33 tops of the hills are table-lands, which are greatly cultivated by
34 means of springs everywhere in abundance. One enthusiastic
35 resident of this part of the country, in describing it, said that
36 even if there was not water there, the very air would raise the
37 crops.” “The water was like ruuning diamonds, the plentiful
38 fresh verdure a8 a carpet of emeralds, and the air like the odour
39 of musk.” This tract is principally inhabited by- the tribe of
40 Caukers, or Khakas, so infamous for their rapacious, treachcrous,
41 and sanguinary dispositions. A native gave Conolly a lively ac-