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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 584 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PICO , an See also:

island in the See also:Atlantic Ocean, belonging to See also:Portugal, and forming See also:part of the See also:Azores See also:archipelago. Pop. (1900), 24,028; See also:area 175 sq. m. Pico is a conical See also:mountain, rising to the height of 7612 ft. The See also:soil consists entirely of pulverized See also:lava. The so-called See also:Fayal See also:wine, though named after an adjacent island, was formerly produced here, and largely exported to See also:Europe. But in 1852 the vines were attacked by the Oidium fungus and completely destroyed, while the See also:orange-trees suffered almost as much from the Coccus hesperidum. The See also:people were consequently forced to emigrate in See also:great See also:numbers, till the planting of fig-trees and apricots alleviated the evil. Pico also produces a See also:species of See also:wood resembling See also:mahogany, and equal in quality to it. Its See also:chief See also:town is Lagens do Pico. Pop. (2975).

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