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SILAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SILAY  , a

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town of the
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province of Negros Occidental,
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island of Negros, Philippine Islands, on the N.W.
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coast, about to m . N. of Bacolod, the
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capital of the province . Pop . (1903, after the
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annexation of Guimbalon and a portion of Eustaquio
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Lopez) - 22,000 . There are more than fifty barrios or villages in the town and the largest of these had, in 1903, 3834 inhabitants . The
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language is Visayan . There is a considerable
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coasting
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trade,
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sugar, brought by a
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tramway from neighbouring towns, is shipped from here, and the cultivation of sugar-
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cane is an important in- dustry;
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Indian
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corn,
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tobacco,
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hemp,
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cotton and cacao are also grown .

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