ROMANSHORN  , an important commercial See also:

• TOWN

town 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 See also:

• THURGAU (Fr. Thurgovie)

Thurgau . It is situated on the See also:

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

west See also:

• SHORE

shore of the See also:

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

lake of See also:

• CONSTANCE
• CONSTANCE (Ger. Konstanz or Costnitz)
• CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF
• CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the " Swabian Sea ")

Constance, and by See also:

• RAIL

rail is 511 M . N.E. of See also:

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

Zurich, 121 M . S.E. of Constance, and 10 m . N.W. of See also:

• RORSCHACH

Rorschach . In 1900 its See also:

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

population was 4577, mostly See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking, while there were 3093 Protestants to 1478 Romanists . Originally a small fishing See also:

• VILLAGE

village, it belonged to the See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

abbot 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 from 1432 to 1798, when it became See also:

• PART

part of the canton of Thurgau . In 1856 the railway from Romanshorn to Zurich was opened, and this vastly increased the commercial importance of Romanshorn . Nowadays it is the centre of a See also:

• GREAT

great transit See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, as it communicates, by means of the lake, with the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal towns on its shores . The See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn trade and that in See also:

• TIMBER

timber are among 'the most important, while there are many See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial establishments . It is essentially a See also:

• MODERN

modern commercial centre .