[52] Isaiah v, 20.—­Coco.

[53] This edifice is still in existence.  It is the only one with a stone vault which has been constructed in the archipelago.  It resisted with but little damage the series of most severe earthquakes which devastated Manila so frequently.  The earthquake of 1880 split one of its towers, which the fathers of the convent afterward ordered to be pulled down.  The church is the most capacious and beautiful in Manila, in spite of these circumstances.  Its architect was the Augustinian lay-brother Fray Antonio Herrara, nephew or son of the famous architect who built the Escorial.—­Coco.

[54] In reg., chapter viii.  This is in English:  “And therefore, the more fully that you shall watch over a common possession than your own, so much the more fully shall you learn how to progress.”

[55] St. Poss, in his life of St. Augustine [Vita S. Augustini], chapter xxix.  Englished the above quotation is, “He made no will, for, as he was a pauper in Christ, he had nothing.”

[56] The U.S.  Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands (p. 374) says that the lake of Bonbon or Taal is second in importance among the lakes of Luzon.  Its circumference is seventy-five miles, being seventeen miles from north to south and twelve and one-half miles from east to west:  It reaches a depth of one hundred and six fathoms very near shore.  The crater of the volcano of Taal in its center supplies quantities of sulphur.

[57] The last parochial census (before 1893) gave Taal 32,908 inhabitants, and says that from it was formed the village of Lemery, which has 16,738 inhabitants.—­Coco.

Bulletin No. 1 (ut supra) gives the present civilized population of Taal as 17,525.  The chief industries of the people are agriculture, herding, fishing, and the coast trade.  Lemery has 11,150 civilized inhabitants.

[58] For a late discussion of the volcanoes of the Philippines, see Bulletin No. 3 of The Census of the Philippine Islands, “Volcanoes and Seismic Centers,” published by the Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census (Washington, 1904).

[59] Today (1893) Tanauan has 21,363 inhabitants; Lipa, 40,031; Bauang, 39,275; and Batangas, 35,156.—­Coco.

The Bulletin’s figures give Tanauan 18,263 civilized inhabitants; Lipa, 37,934; Bauang, 39,094; and Batangas, 33,131.

[60] This lake has a coast-line of 108 miles, and its two greatest diameters are respectively 32 and 28 miles.  Fifteen rivers empty into it.  See U.S.  Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands.

[61] The original reads:  “porque dos Iglesias,” which we have regarded as a misprint for “porque dos leguas.”

[62] The original is “de voto.”  Perhaps Medina means that the religious at this visita had the right of voting at the election of the provincial.—­Coco.

[63] Calumpit has now (1893) 15,024 inhabitants.—­Coco.