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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE 
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
I. CEBU ISLAND. 
By WarREN D. SmirH. 
(From the Division of Mines, Bureau of Science.) 
CONTENTS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
DISCUSSION. 
Brief statement of the geology. 
Physiography. 
The Cordillera Central. 
The intermediate uplands. 
The coves. 
The coastal plain. 
Economic relations. 
CONCLUSION. 
INTRODUCTION. 
I have chosen the physiography of Cebu for the first paper of this 
series for a number of reasons, the first of which is that my acquaintance 
with that island is more intimate than with any other of the larger 
islands of the Philippine Archipelago; the second, that historically it is 
the oldest place of European settlement in the group; the third, that 
it is the most populous island for its size; and the fourth, that its 
economic, social, and political history is so peculiarly related to that of 
its physiography and geology that I feel capable of a more scientific 
inquiry into these relationships in Cebu than in the case of other islands, 
where my conclusions would be more or less conjectural. 
The primary object of my visit to Cebu was to make an investigation 
of the coal and oil deposits; the data for this paper were acquired during 
three months of rather extended reconnaissance. 
A very admirable and fairly complete geologic and physiographic 
description of Cebu has come from the able pen of Sr. Enrique Abella 
y Casariego, formerly chief engineer of the Cuerpo de Ingenieros de 
Minas. As this work is in Spanish, it is not available to many geological 
readers and for this reason I feel that I will be pardoned for draw- 
ing upon it rather copiously. It should be stated that in this paper 
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