TEZPUR

[s. 750] : A town of A am, India, on the Brahmaputra, 75 miles above Gauhati. The town is built on a plain between two low ranges of hills, upon which the houses of the European It is an important seat of residents are built. trade, where the river steamers touch to take on board tea, and to leave stores of various kinds to be distributed among the neighboring tea-gar Of late years the character of the houses dens. and sanitary condition of the town have been much improved. Population, 2,910. Station of theSPG (1862), with (1903) 1 mi ionary, 24 native workers, 6 places of worship, 17 day schools, 1 boarding school, and 783 profe ed Christians, of whom 110 are communicants. Some write the name Tezpore. 750