Zug, the smallest canton of Switzerland, and sends only one representative to the National Council; is 12 m. long by 9 m. broad; is hilly and pastoral in the SE., and has cultivated fields and orchards in the NW.; all but includes Lake Zug, at the NE. of which is Zug (5), the capital, which carries on sundry industries on a small scale.
Population (circa 1900) given as 23,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Zschokke, Johann Heinrich * Zuider Zee