Grisons

(gre'zon(g.) [Ger. Graubünden.] Acant. of S.E. Switzerland, b. E. by the Tyrol, and S. by Ticino; area, 2,076 sq. m. Its surface is much broken by lofty offshoots of the Alps,bet. which are considerable valleys, fertile, and devoted to the pasture of great numbers of cattle; C. Chur (or Coire). Pop. 90,713. [s. 426]