Tai-wan, capital of Formosa (q.v.), an important commercial emporium, situated about 3 m. from the SW. coast, on which, however, it has a port, ranking as a treaty-port.
Population (circa 1900) given as 70,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tait, Peter Guthrie * Taj Mahal