RORSCHACH  , a busy 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 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:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-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:

• CON

Con-stance, and by See also:

• RAIL

rail 62 m . N.E. of See also:

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

Zurich, 10 m . S.E. of See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans-See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn and 57 M . N. of See also:

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

Coire . In 1900 its See also:

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

population was 9140, mostly See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking, while there were 5935 Romanists to 3139 Protestants . From 1408 to 1798 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 Gall, and then to the canton Santis (named canton of St Gall in 1803) of the Helvetic See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic . It has always been a See also:

• GREAT

great commercial centre, though now superseded by See also:

• ROMANSHORN

Romanshorn as regards the See also:

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

corn 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 . It has many See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial establishments, of which the See also:

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

chief is one for the manufacture of See also:

• LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were

lace and See also:

• MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

muslin . Above the town is the old See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent of Mariaberg, originally built in the 15th See also:

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

century as a See also:

• REFUGE

refuge for the monks of St Gall against the turbulent citizens of that town, but now a See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary for teachers . From Rorschach a cogwheel railway runs south-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east in 4; M . Up to Heiden, a See also:

• VILLAGE

village in the canton of See also:

• APPENZELL

Appenzell well known for its goats' whey cure . (W .

A . B .