[1884.—"The big gun near the Central Museum of Lahor called the Zam-Zamah or Bhanjianvati top, seems to have held much the same place with the Sikhs as the Malik-i-Maidán held in Bijapur."—Bombay Gazetteer, xxiii. 642.]
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1673.—"... flourish pleasant Tops of Plantains, Cocoes, Guiavas."—Fryer, 40.
" "The Country is Sandy; yet plentiful in Provisions; in all places, Tops of Trees."—Ibid. 41.
1747.—"The Topes and Walks of Trees in and about the Bounds will furnish them with firewood to burn, and Clay for Bricks is almost everywhere."—Report of a Council of War at Ft. St. David, in Consns. of May 5, MS. in India Office.
1754.—"A multitude of People set to the work finished in a few days an entrenchment, with a stout mud wall, at a place called Facquire's Tope, or the grove of the Facquire."—Orme, i. 273.
1799.—"Upon looking at the Tope as I came in just now, it appeared to me, that when you get possession of the bank of the [Nullah], you have the Tope as a matter of course."—Wellington, Desp. i. 23.
1809.—"... behind that a rich country, covered with rice fields and topes."—Ld. Valentia, i. 557.
1814.—"It is a general practice when a plantation of mango trees is made, to dig a well on one side of it. The well and the tope are married, a ceremony at which all the village attends, and large sums are often expended."—Forbes, Or. Mem. iii. 56.
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