FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FasciCLE oF Parawan Fics 1371 
soil well disintegrated to a fair depth and covered with woods 
and forests except for the clearings that have from time to time 
been made. There is an old road from the town across the 
point to the north seacoast, a distance of about five miles. It 
was built in Spanish times and was used by them as a drive 
or boulevard. The mountain range is directly opposite the 
town across the bay. The quarters of the colonists are on the 
Iwahig river seven miles from its mouth. Here the soil of the 
secondary and primary forested flats is of a newer formation, 
having been transported from the close range as rocky débris 
and in most places this gravel or stony soil is covered over with 
a thin blanket of clay, due to recent disintegration. It is rather 
unfortunate that the agricultural part of the penal reservation 
could not have been settled upon a more fertile soil such as is 
on the Puerto Princesa peninsula; the timber and water 
resources are better at Iwahig. The range comprises several 
rather prominent peaks or mounts, the highest is mount Pulgar 
or Thumb peak. It is 4260 feet high and is rather close to Iwahig. 
To the north of it is mount Beaufort several hundred feet less in 
altitude, after which the range runs at only one half that al- 
titude until toward Cleopatra needle. 'To the south of Pulgar 
are several rather high mounts or peaks, the nearest to Pulgar 
is Stavely. Further southwards there is quite a saddle in the 
island's backbone until the gentle rise up to Vietoria peak whose 
altitude is charted as 5680 feet. The name Pulgar in Spanish 
means thumb, and the mountain originally received this name 
because of the 500 to 750 feet of rocky summit having a strong 
likeness to a thumb. The highest point is only a short and nar- 
row ridge a trifle precipitous on the northern side. Here one 
has a panoramie view northward to Cleopatra, southward to 
Victoria; eastward over the reservation, the bay and across the 
Puerto Princesa peninsula; and westward the white coast line 
lies closer to one’s feet than does the east coast. The whole 
summit region is covered with low, well interlaced and rigid chap- 
arral growth. Immediately to the south of the summit is quite 
a densely forested basin in which the northwest fork of the Iwahig 
river rises; the other fork is more to the south before it turns 
into the range. Along this southern branch is cut a good trail 
and a telephone line built across the low divide to Anepahan or 
Napsahan or only Napsan as it is now called and which is situat- 
