GALL (St), a considerable town in Switzerland, and in the Upper Thurgow, with a rich and celebrated abbey, whose abbot is a prince of the empire. This place has for some time been a republic, in alliance with the Cantons. It is not very large; but is well built, neat, populous. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the linen manufacture; and make annually, it is said, 40,000 pieces of linen, of 200 ell each; which renders it one of the richest towns in Switzerland. The inhabitants are Protestants; for which reason there are often great contests between them and the abbey, about religious affairs. It is seated in a narrow barren valley, between two mountains, and upon two small streams. E. Long. 29. 5. N. Lat. 47. 38.