The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

APPENDIX: AGRICULTURE IN FILIPINAS

By Joseph Basco y Vargas (Arayat, March 20, 1784), and others.

Sources: The first section of this document is obtained from a printed copy of Basco’s decree, in the possession of Edward E. Ayer; the second part, from Jagor’s Reisen, pp. 303–306; the third, from Fernandez and Moreno’s Manual del viajero en Filipinas, pp. 172–178.

Translations: All these are made by Emma Helen Blair.

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