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National Geographic : 1904 Mar
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THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE Igorrote Packers on the Road to Benguet extending to the coast on either side. Its highest summit, Mount Halcon, has an altitude exceeding 8,000 feet. The surface of Samar, the most east ern of the Visayan Islands, is exceed ingly broken, but nowhere rises to a great elevation. Probably no summit of more than 2,oco feet in height is to be found on the island. The island of Leyte has a central range extending the length of the island from north to south, with a few summits exceeding 3,000 feet. Bohol, also of the Visayan group, is no where high, although most of the island is hilly. Cebu is characterized by a con tinuous range running from the north ern to the southern end of the island, the greatest elevation, on the broadest part Photo by Gannett of the island, not exceeding 2,300 feet. The Island of Negros has a range run ning throughout its length, but without great elevation, excepting in the volcano Canlaon or Malaspina, which is said to have an altitude of more than 8,000 feet. Panay, the last of the large islands of the Visayan group, is dominated by a range of mountains extending from the northwest to the southwest point of the island, not far from the coast. This range, which furnishes the east bound ary of the Province of Antique,has many summits exceeding 6,000 feet. From a point near the middle of this range there extends a subordinate range, which, running east and northeast, separates the provinces of Capiz and Iloilo. 95
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