The Philippine Islands and Their People 95 



Photo bv Gannett 



Igor-rote Packers on the Road to Benguet 



extending to the coast on either side. 

 Its highest summit, Mount Halcon, has 

 an altitude exceeding 8,000 feet. 



The surface of Samar, the most east- 

 ern of the Visayan Islands, is exceed- 

 ingly broken, but nowhere rises to a 

 great elevation. Probably no summit of 

 more than 2,oco feet in height is to be 

 found on the island. The island of Leyte 

 has a central range extending the length 

 of the island from north to south, with 

 a few summits exceeding 3,000 feet. 

 Kohol, also of the Visayan group, is no- 

 where high, although most of the island 

 is hilly. Cebu is characterized by a con- 

 tinuous range running from the north- 

 ern to the southern end of the island, the 

 greatest elevation, on the broadest part 



of the island, not exceeding 2,300 feet. 

 The Island of Negros has a range run- 

 ning throughout its length, but without 

 great elevation, excepting in the volcano 

 Canlaon or Malaspina, which is said to 

 have an altitude of more than 8,000 feet. 

 Panay, the last of the large islands of 

 the Visayan group, is dominated by a 

 range of mountains extending from the 

 northwest to the southwest point of the 

 island, not far from the coast. This 

 range, which furnishes the east bound- 

 ary of the Province of Antique, has many 

 summits exceeding 6,000 feet. From a 

 point near the middle of this range there 

 extends a subordinate range, which, 

 running east and northeast, separates 

 the provinces of Capiz and Iloilo. 



