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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FAJARDO , a See also:

DISTRICT

district and See also:

TOWN

town on the E. See also:

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

coast of See also:

PORTO

Porto Rico, belonging to the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

HUMACAO

Humacao. Pop. (1899) of the district, 16,782; and of the town, 3414. The district is highlyfertile and is well watered, owing in See also:

GREAT

great measure to its abundant rainfall. See also:

SUGAR

Sugar See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production is its See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, but some See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention is also given to the growing of See also:

orange's and pineapples. The town, which was founded in 1774, is a busy commercial centre See also:

STANDING

standing 14 m. from a large and well-sheltered See also:

BAY

bay, at the entrance to which is the cape called Cabeza de See also:

SAN

San Juan. It is the See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market town for a number of small islands off the E. coast, some of which produce See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle for export.

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