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Zurich (Capital of the canton)

capital of the canton of Zurich; 41 miles N. N. E. of Lucerne and 43 N. W. of Glarus, at the point where the Limmat issues from the Lake of Zurich and unites with its tributary the Sihl. It is one of the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial towns of Switzerland; yet the narrow streets and lofty houses of its older quarters, on the high ground E. of the river, give it the quaint appearance of a mediæval city.

Of the Romanesque cathedral, erected in ZWICKAU the 11th and 13th centuries, Zwingli was pastor, as Lavater was of the Peterskirche. The Polytechnic (1864) houses the university, founded in Fuseli was a native. Pop. with suburbs, about 160,000.