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AGUADILLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGUADILLA  , a

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town and
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port near the
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northern extremity of the W.
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coast of
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Porto Rico . Pop . (1899) 6425 . It has a fairly
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good and safe anchorage, and is the commercial outlet for a very fertile agricultural
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district . The town is attractively situated and well built, and is connected by railway with
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Mayaguez, 20 M. distant, and also with
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Ponce and
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San Juan . Theneighbouring district produces
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sugar-
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cane,
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tobacco,
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cattle, cocoanuts, oranges and lemons . The
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bay is supposed to have been first visited by
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Columbus (
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November 1493), though the town was not founded until 1775 .

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