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APPENDIX. 
Point St. Jago is fringed by a reef ; as are (Horsburgh, 
vol. ii. p. 437) the Three Friars off Silanguin Bay. Between 
Point Capones and Playa Honda, the coast is ‘ lined by a 
coral-reef, stretching out nearly a mile in some places’ 
(Horsburgh) ; and Mr. Cuming visited some fringing-reefs 
on other parts of the coast, namely, near Puebla, Iba, and 
Mansinglor. In the neighbourhood of Solon-solon Bay, 
the shore is lined (Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 439) by coral-reefs, 
stretching out a great way : there are also reefs about the 
islets off Solamague ; and as I am informed by Mr. Cuming, 
near St. Catalina, and a little north of it. The same 
gentleman informs me that there are reefs on the S.E. 
point of this island in front of Samar, extending from 
Malalabon to Bulusan. These appear to be the principal 
fringing-reefs on the coasts of Luzon ; and they have all 
been coloured red. Mr. Cuming informs me that none of 
them have deep water within ; although it appears from 
Horsburgh that some fe^ extend to a considerable distance 
from the land. Within the Philippine Archipelago, the 
shores of the islands do not appear to be commonly fringed, 
with the exception of the S. shore of Mash ate, and nearly 
the whole of Bohol ; which are both coloured red. On the 
S. shore of Magindanao, Bunwoot Island is surrounded 
(according to Forrest, Voyage, p. 253) by a coral-reef, 
which in the chart appears one of the fringing class. With 
respect to the eastern coasts of the archipelago, I have not 
been able to obtain any account. Prof. Semper has re- 
cently published a notice (Zeitschr. f. Wissensch. Zoologie, 
Bd. xiii. 1863, p. 558) respecting the coral-reefs of this 
archipelago. It appears that some of them come under the 
class of barrier-reefs ; but as I have not seen a chart on a 
large scale, and know nothing about the depth of the water 
outside the reefs, nor about the slope of the encircled land, 
I cannot judge whether they properly come under the barrier 
class. 
