A pronouncing gazetteer and geographical dictionary of the Philippine Islands, United States of America with maps, charts and illustrations . hewestern and south westernmost and one of the largest of the P. A., extending SW. between the parallels of lat. 8° 22 N. and 11° 25 N., and E. and W. betweenthe meridians of Ion. 117° 9 E. to 119° 43 E. On account of its geographical posi-tion the island is one of the most important in the P. A. It is bounded on the the Calamianes chain, with Busuaifga, the largest of those islands, interveningtoward Mindoro 129 m.; on the E. by the Mindoro
A pronouncing gazetteer and geographical dictionary of the Philippine Islands, United States of America with maps, charts and illustrations . hewestern and south westernmost and one of the largest of the P. A., extending SW. between the parallels of lat. 8° 22 N. and 11° 25 N., and E. and W. betweenthe meridians of Ion. 117° 9 E. to 119° 43 E. On account of its geographical posi-tion the island is one of the most important in the P. A. It is bounded on the the Calamianes chain, with Busuaifga, the largest of those islands, interveningtoward Mindoro 129 m.; on the E. by the Mindoro Sea, with Panay, Negros, andMindanao opposite; on the S. by the United States island of Balabac and BritishNorth Borneo, 93 m., and on the W. by the China Sea, Indo-China lying separates the China from the Sulu or Mindoro seas, the channels connecting thembeing Mmdoro Strait (N.) and Bahibac Strait (S.). The W. line of internationalboundary of the United States possessions parallels the W. coast from Cape Buliluyanto the 10th parallel from 25 to 34 m., and thence due N. from 46 to 105 m, at CapeCabuli, off the
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