terminal of the Manila & Dagupan railway.

MANILA, the capital city and principal port of the Philippine Islands, situated on the W.

It is served by the Manila & Dagupan railway.

The exports of manufactured tobacco, such as Manila cheroots, find their principal market in China, British India, Australasia and the United Kingdom, whilst of the leaf tobacco fully three-quarters goes to Spain.

It is, however, principally a cordage fibre, and in tensile strength it is second only to manila hemp; but it does not bear well the alternations of wet and dry to which ship-ropes are subject.