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Excerpt from The Philippine Islands: Their Graphic Description by One Who Has Lived There Their Vast Agricultural, Mineral, and Industrial Resources Gold Glittering in the Sand and Gravel of Every Stream One of the Richest Gold-Fields of Earth in a Land of Perpetual Summer, How Annexat
The islands number or more, the most of them being small and uninhabited.
The southern extremity of the group lies 5 degrees north of the equator, while the most northern boundary is 20 degrees from the equator, the latitudinal range of the islands being about as wide as that of the United States.
The Philippine Islands were dis covered ih 1521 by Magellan, and a few years later the Spaniards, under Villalobos, took possession of the group and named it in honor of King Philip II. Of Spain, and have held it over 360 years.
The islands were again discovered on the first of last May by Admiral Dewey, who proceeded with great promptness to sink Spain's Asiatic fleet.
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