LINGAYEN  , a

town and the capital of the province of Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, about Ito m . N. by W. of Manila, on the S. shore of the Gulf of Lingayen, and on a low and fertile island in the delta of the Agno river . Pop . (1903) 21,529 . It has good government buildings, a fine church and plaza, the provincial high school and a girls' school conducted by Spanish Dominican friars . The climate is cool and healthy . The chief industries are the cultivation of rice (the most important crop of the surrounding country), fishing and the making of nipa-wine from the juice of the nipa palm, which grows abundantly in the neighbouring swamps . The principal language is Pangasinan; Ilocano is also spoken .