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SCHAPPHAUSEN

Volume 9 · 74 words · 1778 Edition

the canton of, in Switzerland, is bounded on the north and west by Swabia; on the east by the canton of Zurich, and the bishopric of Constance; and on the south by the same, and by Thurgau. It is 22 miles in length, and 10 in breadth; but produces all the necessaries of life, as wine, fish, wood, flax, horses, sheep, wool, black cattle, and deer. The principal town is of the same name.