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Title: A pronouncing gazetteer and geographical dictionary of the Philippine Islands, United States of America with maps, charts and illustrations
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs United States. 57th Congress (1st session, 1901-1902) Keim, De B. Randolph (De Benneville Randolph), 1841-1914
Subjects: Philippines -- Description and travel Gazetteers Philippines -- Politics and government 1898-1935
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rties being: Sulphur, at Aparri, Caga3an, Luzon, and many other localities,rivaling, according to analyses, the celebrated springs of Arkansasand Virginia in the United States, Eaux-Bonnes and Aix-la-Chapellein Prussia, and Harrowgate in England. Saline, at Mariveles, in Bataan, opposite Manila, and other points,containing salts of lime, magnesia, soda, iron, iodine, and bromine,equaling Saratoga, United States; St. Catherine, Canada; Kissingenin Bavaria, and Wiesbaden in Hesse-Nassau, Prussia. Alkaline, the celebrated springs at Tivi in Albay, Pasig in Rizal,near Manila, and in many of the islands, containing salts of soda,potash, lime, magnesia, lithia, and other properties equaling Vichy inFrance and Heilbrunn, Germany. Purgative, at Daet, Ambos Camarines and Los Banos, Laguna, 35.miles by lake from Manila, the most famous of all and the resort of -- 1 f ^n -.-^\l^ ^^ ^■^#1 A MAP ^^ PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY ^ PHILIPPINE ISLANDS f 1 T»IN AND DRAINAGE i 1SYSTEMS. 1 -M-*i. -r-i -^ it i _
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I.on^luilF.dflXl GAZETTEER OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 11 thousands; the waters being strongly impregnated with, sulpnate ofsod;i, magnesium, and sulphates, as at Seidlitz and Carlsbad, Bohemia.Chalybeate, containing salts of iron and of arsenic, as the famousSj);! of Belgium, and rivaled by the springs of Lemery, in Batangas,Luzon, and the waters of several of those of Los Banos in Laguna. RIVERS. The large islands of the archipelago have extensive fluvial systems,determined by the great mountain ranges. That of Luzon is repre-sented by 4: streams and their drainage basins. The Grande de Cagayan flows 105 m. N. in a direct line, itsvalley fronting 70 m. on the China Sea on the N. With its greattributaries the Magat, Bangag, and Siftu, and a network of smalleraflluents reaching out E. and W. 97 m., it drains the enormous areaof 16,000 sq. m. from the provinces of Principe and Nueva Vizcaya,lat. 16° to lat. IS^ 30 N., or the entire NE. half of the great island. The Agno Grande drains t

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