See also:

• DAVOS (Romonsch Tavau, a name variously explained as meaning a sheep pasture or simply " behind ")

DAVOS (Romonsch Tavau, a name variously explained as meaning a See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep pasture or simply " behind ")  , a See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain valley in the Swiss See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of the See also:

• GRISONS (Ger. Graubunden)

Grisons, lying See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of See also:

• COIRE (Ger. Chur or Cur, Ital. Coira, Lat. Curia Raetorum, Romonsch Cuera)

Coire (whence it is 40 M. distant by See also:

• RAIL

rail), and See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• ENGADINE (Ger. Engadin; Ital. Engadina; Ladin, Engiadina)

Engadine (accessible at See also:

• SUS

Sus in 18 m. by road) . It contains two See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main villages, 2 M. from each other, Dorfli and Platz (the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• HAMLET

hamlet), which are 5015 ft. above the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level, and had a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1900 of 8089, a figure exceeded in the Grisons only by the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital Coire . Of the population 5391 were Protestants, 2564 Romanists, and 81 See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews; while 6048 were See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking and 486 Romonsch-speaking . In 186o the population was only 1705, rising to 2002 in 187o, to 2865 in 188o, to 3891 in 1888, and to 8089 in 189o . This steady increase,is due to the fact that the valley is now much frequented in See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter by consumptive patients, as its position, sheltered from See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold winds and exposed to brilliant See also:

• SUNSHINE

sunshine in the daytime, has a most beneficial effect on invalids in the first stages of that terrible disease . A See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor, by name Spengler, first noticed this fact about 1865, and the valley soon became famous . It is now provided with excellent hotels, sanatoria, &c., but as lately as 186o there was only one See also:

• INN

inn there, housed in the 16th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Rathhaus (See also:

• TOWN

town See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall), which is still adorned by the heads of wolves shot in the neighbourhood . At the north end of the valley is the See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake of See also:

• DAVOS (Romonsch Tavau, a name variously explained as meaning a sheep pasture or simply " behind ")

Davos, used for See also:

• SKATING (Dutch schaats, a skate)

skating in the winter, while from Platz the splendidly engineered Landwasserstrasse leads (20 m.) down to the Alvaneubad station on the Albula• railway from Coire to the Engadine . We first hear of Tavaus or Tavauns in ii6o and 1213, as amountain pasture or " See also:

• ALP

alp." It was then in the hands of a Romonsch-speaking population, as is shown by many surviving See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field names . But, some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time between 126o and 1282, a See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony of German-speaking persons from the Upper See also:

• VALAIS (Ger. Wallis, Ital. Vallese)

Valais (first mentioned in 1289) was planted there by its See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord, See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

Walter von Vaz, so that it has See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long been a See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the midst of a Romonsch-speaking population . Historically it is associated with the Prattigau or Landquart valley to the north, as it was the most important See also:

• VILLAGE

village of the region, and in 1436 became the capital of the See also:

• LEAGUE

League of the Ten Jurisdictions . (See GRISONS.} It formerly contained many See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron mines, and belonged from 1477 to 1649 to the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian Habsburgs .

In 1779 Davos was visited and described by See also:

• ARCHDEACON (Lat. archidiaconus, Gr. &oxt3tauovor)

Archdeacon W . See also:

• COXE, HENRY OCTAVIUS (1811–1881)
• COXE, WILLIAM (1747-1828)

Coxe . (W . A . B .