Thurgau, a canton of Switzerland, on the NE. frontier, where Lake Constance for a considerable distance forms its boundary; inhabitants are mainly Protestant; country is hilly but not mountainous, fertile, and traversed by the river Thur, a tributary of the Rhine; capital Frauenfeld.
Population (circa 1900) given as 105,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Thunderer * Thurible