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The Philippines: A Letter
Excerpt from The A Letter
To the eye, the climate at first View offers the manifold incontestable cha1ms of luxuriant verdure; giving, indeed, some color to the ancient tradition still believed in Mindanao, that the angels once brought the land of Paradise there, and that some of it yet remains. There are tall palms topping their slender, rather crooked stems with large leaf tufts, and often with great clusters of green c.o_coanuts yielding a delicious abundance of cool, refreshing water to quench the thirst of travelers in the'hot sun. Here and there you see bunches of the plume - like bamboo, the inexhaustible source of implements and furniture for nearly every need. There are many broad and l - ong leaved banana trees, particularly of the kind whose leaf stems produce the fine and pliable, but tough and rot defy ing fibres of the world renowned Manila hemp. There are fruit-bearing trees, with bananas, custard apples, mangoes.
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To the eye, the climate at first View offers the manifold incontestable cha1ms of luxuriant verdure; giving, indeed, some color to the ancient tradition still believed in Mindanao, that the angels once brought the land of Paradise there, and that some of it yet remains. There are tall palms topping their slender, rather crooked stems with large leaf tufts, and often with great clusters of green c.o_coanuts yielding a delicious abundance of cool, refreshing water to quench the thirst of travelers in the'hot sun. Here and there you see bunches of the plume - like bamboo, the inexhaustible source of implements and furniture for nearly every need. There are many broad and l - ong leaved banana trees, particularly of the kind whose leaf stems produce the fine and pliable, but tough and rot defy ing fibres of the world renowned Manila hemp. There are fruit-bearing trees, with bananas, custard apples, mangoes.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
24 pages, Hardcover
Published August 24, 2018
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