Abbottabad
Abbottabad is a town in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, named after its founder, Sir James Abbott[?].
It was a town of British India, 4120 feet above
sealevel, 63 miles from Rawalpindi[?], the headquarters of the
Hazara district in the Northwest Frontier Province. Sir James Abbott[?]
settled this wild district
after the annexation of the Punjab. It is an important
military cantonment and sanatorium, being the headquarters of
a brigade in the second division of the northern army corps.
In 1901 the population of the town and cantonment was 7764.