one of the eight circles into which the canton of Thurgaw is divided.

a town of Switzerland, chief of the circle of the same name. It contains 170 houses and 900 inhabitants, about equally catholics and reformed protestants, who use the only church alternately, and divide the magistracy between them equally. It has a considerable trade in linen goods. It is on the lake of Constance. Long. 9. 25. E. Lat. 42. 27. N.