RORSCHACH  , a busy commercial

town in the Swiss canton of St Gall, situated on the south-west shore of the Lake of Con-stance, and by rail 62 m . N.E. of Zurich, 10 m . S.E. of Romans-horn and 57 M . N. of Coire . In 1900 its population was 9140, mostly German-speaking, while there were 5935 Romanists to 3139 Protestants . From 1408 to 1798 it belonged to the abbot of St Gall, and then to the canton Santis (named canton of St Gall in 1803) of the Helvetic Republic . It has always been a great commercial centre, though now superseded by Romanshorn as regards the corn trade . It has many industrial establishments, of which the chief is one for the manufacture of lace and muslin . Above the town is the old convent of Mariaberg, originally built in the 15th century as a refuge for the monks of St Gall against the turbulent citizens of that town, but now a seminary for teachers . From Rorschach a cogwheel railway runs south-east in 4; M . Up to Heiden, a village in the canton of Appenzell well known for its goats' whey cure . (W .

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