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Mr. Snow Harris proposed ( ()be > the 



ng on Float me I ' -ntly 



d to be executed for ships, conductor* consisting of 

 i sufficient thickness to prevent them from 

 being fused; those slips are inserted, in two layen. in a 

 groov itudinally along the mast, the joints < 



layer the middle purls of the other, and 



:ire fastened to the nut-' The 



whole hue of metal passe* down from the ce,pp,-r spindle 

 at the top of the mast-head, and at the junctions of the 

 upper and lower masts the slip is made to join a cylinder 

 of copper which lines each sheave-hole: the. lower part of 

 the line is connected with :i plate of copper which i- 

 on the keelson, at the step, and from thence then* is a com- 

 munication with the three copper bolts which 

 past) quite through the keel. 



THURGAU, a canton of Switzerland, hounded on the 

 north partly by the lak<- .d parUrBytb* 



Rhine, which divides it from thu canton of Schatthau-cn : 

 on the east and south by the canton of St. Gullen, ami on 

 the west by that of Zurich. The river Thur, which 

 from the canton of St. Gallon and is joined by tlu 

 from Appenzell, has given its name to the canton 'Thur- 

 iraii.' or district of the Thur,' the river crossing the middle 

 part of it from east to west, The N;H Thur is se- 



parated from the basin of the ln!> 



siou of lulls which i! ices on both Miles, and are 



intersecteel -1 \allcys. On the south and west 



aides other hills divide the Thin-gnu from the valley of the 

 Toss in the canton of Zurich. The whole country belongs 

 to the plateau or table-land of Switzerland, and is a con- 

 siderable distance from the Alpine region. The clu; 

 the Thurgau is comparatively mild : a great part of the 

 country is planted witli fruit-trees, especially apple, pear, 

 and cherry: the vine also thrives in several localities. 

 The produce of corn is not sufficient for the consumption. 



.dim; to a late return, there were in Thurgau about 

 28,000 head of horned cattle, 3TXX) sheep and goats, and 

 2550 hones. The rivers and the lake abound with fish. 

 The area of the canton is estimated at about IJGo English 

 square miles; and the population in !S3Ti was 84.12-1 inha- 

 bitants, of whom about 66.000 follow the tenets of the 

 Reformed or Protestant communion, and the rest are 

 Roman Catholu "i is the language of the coun- 



try. About one-third of the population is employed in 

 trade and manufactures. The principal manufactures cem- 

 sist of cotton poods, in which above 3000 looms are em- 

 ployed. The average wanes of a workman are about 7J 

 batxen, or eleven pence sterling per day. About 3000 , 

 of tine linen from native t\;i\ are made annually : but this 

 manufacture is on the decline. There are also spinning- 

 factonus which produce yarns , , the. quality from Xo. 40 

 to 00. The tariff' of the (ierman commercial league has 

 much diminished the exportation of manufactured goods 

 Some silks are manufactured for the French market. The 

 other exuort.s consist of wine, cattle, oats, dried fnu 

 cider. The principal imports are iron and metal ware 

 in England; coarse woollen goods from (ie-i 

 maiiy . fine woollen from France and Delirium: fine cottoi 

 yam : salt from Bavaria and \Yiirtcrabcrg 



The revenue of th- about 1 Oil XX 



florin-, or K.VXI/. sterling, and is deiu.-d from ehr 

 salt an-1 other articles imported, stamps, transfers of pro- 

 perty, and an income' 



mention has be-cu ini])roved of late 

 There arc abwr u of which nrc for I' 



tanU, 58 for He. man ( '.ithohe-s. and six mixed of both coin 

 munions. About 17,000 children attend the i 

 school for teachers has been established at Kreiit/h 



Thai* is a fund, the capital of which amounts to abou 

 half a million of florins, for the -.nppi.it of the JKIOI-. be 

 We -'e it a small poor's; rate on property. Tin 



annual expendituie for tin- pour van.-, from l.">.000 to 

 30,000 HoniH. There is a special fund I'm- I. 

 sJso a benevolent fund. Switzerland in general is a 

 try remarkabl. : ,it. 



Thurgau it divided -Krauenfrld. 



Steck- 



aenhofrn. 'I'he ;! 'tin are 1. 



Krauenfrld, which i* the h. ad town of the 

 in a fertile valley near the eon!' 

 wrth th* Thur. It consists of 162 



mildings, formi '-; the inhabitants 



iinount to about 1300. '! 'a-rlv the 



esiilelii'e of the ' .:au ; 



he town-house, where the Helvetic diet used to Msenblt) 



n the time of the e>ld e : and the 



iiomuii Catholic clum-he*, are- the chief 



mildiii -eckborn, a small busy town pleasantly 



situaleel on the b.mks of the '/,< : L.isin of 



he- la!, iiice-, has M '\ eral mm, 



1900 inbabiUnts, Int! irhoodofs ,the. 



line e e- called ArenalxTir. which wan pur- 



e-base ii ,'lune' 



Ueauharnais and wife of Loin \-Kini; of 



Holland, and in which she died in l*i ! 

 heil'cn. on the left or southern bank of the Rhine-, 



rable trade in agricultural produce, unel 

 bout 1000 inhabitants. 4. Hi- the cem- 



e-ne'e' of the- Sitter ami the Thur, is a walled town, with 

 a collegiate church of the ninth century, an old ca- 

 lontr biidire on the Thur, sv\einl schools, and about lot") 

 inhabitants. ',. Arbon, a small town em the- 

 bank of the Bexlensee, or i nitaaee, of which it 



enjoys a splendid view, is KIH! te> be built on the site of a 

 Roman station i. lii. 



Thu canton of Thin ile'inocracy 



with a legislative assembly, -Grosser R;ith,' and an c\ 

 I. ' Kleiner Rath.' The right of votin:: 

 elections of members of the legislature is subject to - 

 qualifications; but by the last accounts we have seen the 

 constitution was undergoing a revisal. 



tionnaire (jrn^r<i),h :iquedelii 



: J. Bow-ring's Report on the Commerce und Muitti- 

 .'x <f Sicitzerlana.) 



THttRINGER \VAI.D. [GHRMANY: PRT-SSIA.] 

 THt'RINGIA (Thurinsi'ii < is the antient name of an 

 ive tract of country in the central part of Germany, 

 situated between the Han Mountains, the ri 

 and Werra, and the Thiiringcrwald. These- luiuevcr an- 

 not the boundaries of the great Kingdom of Thi'irinuia. 

 which extended to the Elbe, and northwards nearly to 

 deburp. southwards to the vicinity of the Danube, and 

 --bended on the west the- greater part of the country 

 afterwards called Franconia. It cunnot be positively M 

 tained what people originall IThnringia. Ace 



ing to (lale-tti, it was formerly inhabited b; : ac- 



coreliriL' to F. \Vachter and Wilhelm, by the Cheruse-i. 



ins mentions the Thoringi about the year -KM. \-.-. 

 conjectures have been made respecting the- derivation of 

 the name ; and author*, misled b\ a similarity of m: 

 have confounded them with others. The history of the 

 count- and h;is hee-n the subjee 



numerous work's, such of Thurir 



: and \\ ae-hte-r's History, in 3 \ols. Thin 

 gave the title of m. to the- elector ol 



: ly speaking, there is no country now called Thu- 

 rhiL'ia : ' it is elivi.le'el amonir Pru-sia. S;i\e--\Veim:u-. 



Ichwaxburg-Sonderhausen, and Ke-hwarr- 

 burg-Rudolstadt. The name is still jM-e-scrve-el in Tln'i- 

 ...-\!e!, a continuation of the Fichte'lirebirge'. tiom 

 which it bmnches out near Miinchberg anil < 

 the- kingdom of Ha\aria: ne'nr Kise-nae-li. Marksuli 1 . 

 Salzuniren it rises above the \Venathal ; runs sonth- 

 leini: the- frontier of the former circle's ,,t' Vppe-r 

 Saxony and Fraiu-emia, till it turns, n, -tein, 



however it rece-i\e-s the- imnie- 



of l-'ranke-nwald , and decline"-, near Kmnnch. intei the- 

 Maintti.il. The' length is 7n F.nglish miles, and its 

 from '.I to IN miles. It covers nbmit 

 :tl(Ml se|uare- miles, ami has a j of 'J'JIKX: 



in 'JH te)wiis anel ">70 villa:.'! 1 -. It i< . 

 mountain-chain with a nam mel it is only near the 



Schiieeko]if. e>n the road between Suhl and Ohrdnif. tint 

 is a pl.itcnu two or three mi! 'Hi.- two 



: punts arc the- Schneckopf. 'JTtlO !<<<. and the 

 _t)l feet, above tt 



'''< nn<1 princi- 



sin,rmi! with 'pinc-forrsts, mixed in n fi with 



Ihis chain, 

 \\hichilowon one side into th i mi the- other 



Stein's 

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Hrock 



