SILAY  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Negros Occidental, See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Negros, Philippine Islands, on the N.W. See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, about to m . N. of Bacolod, the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the province . Pop . (1903, after the See also:

• ANNEXATION (Lat. ad, to, and nexus, joining)

annexation of Guimbalon and a portion of Eustaquio See also:

• LOPEZ, CARLOS ANTONIO (1790-1862)

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 See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is Visayan . There is a considerable See also:

• COASTING

coasting See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, See also:

• SUGAR

sugar, brought by a See also:

• TRAMWAY

tramway from neighbouring towns, is shipped from here, and the cultivation of sugar-See also:

• CANE

cane is an important in- dustry; See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn, See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, See also:

• HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp, See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton and cacao are also grown .