HARDBOUND
FAIR
FINAL MAPS MISSING

ABOUT THE WORK

The author of this study was born in Manila in 1847, the son of a Galician official stationed in the Philippines for more than twenty years. He was a mining engineer and lived many years in the Philippines. Between 1879 and 1893 he published several studies on the geology of the provinces of the Philippines, among others, on the Nueva Vizcaya earthquakes (1881) and the Mayon volcano (1885). The first part contains much useful information on the population - there is a table with the number of inhabitants of each locality of Cebu in 1880 -, on the climate - table of the temperature and humidity -, on the orography - list of the altitude at which each locality is located -, and on the rivers, coasts and harbors. The second part focuses on geology, with special attention to mineral deposits. The scientific spirit animates the whole work. The report contains seven plates. The third of these is of exceptional value: a large folded map entitled “Geological Sketch of the Cebu Island”. Very rare