RAGATZ  , a famous watering-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place 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 St See also:

• GALL (a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch gal, and Ger. Galle; the Indo-European root appears in Gr. xoXi,, and Lat. fel; possibly connected with " yellow," with reference to the colour of bile)
• GALL, FRANZ JOSEPH (1758-1828)

Gall, situated on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine, and by See also:

• RAIL

rail 132 M . N. of See also:

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

Coire or 611 m . S.E. of See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich . It stands at a height of 1696 ft., at the entrance to the magnificent See also:

• GORGE

gorge of the Tamina, about 3 M . Up which by See also:

• CARRIAGE

carriage road are the extraordinarily placed See also:

• BATHS

Baths of Pfafers (2247 ft.) . Since 184o the hot See also:

• MINERAL

mineral See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of Pfafers are conducted in pipes to Ragatz, which is in a more pleasant position . Consequently Ragatz has much increased in importance since that date . In 1900 its native See also:

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

population was 1866, mainly See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking, while there were 1472 Romanists to 392 Protestants . The See also:

• ANNUAL

annual number of visitors is reckoned at 30,000 . In the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church-yard is the See also:

• GRAVE

grave of the philosopher See also:

• SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON (1775-1854)
• SCHELLING, KAROLINE (1763-1809)

Schelling (d. here in 1854) . About 2 M. by road above Ragatz are the 17th-See also:

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

century buildings (now the cantonal lunatic See also:

• ASYLUM (from Gr. b.-, privative, arid earl, right'of seizure)
• ASYLUM, RIGHT OF (Fr. droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrecht)

asylum) of the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• BENEDICTINE

Benedictine See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

abbey of Pfafers (720-1838), to which all this region belonged till 1798; while midway between them and Ragatz are the ruins of the 14th-century See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of Wartenstein, now accessible from Ragatz by means of a funicular railway . (W .

A . B .