Note 2 — Chapter XXXIII · Commercial Possibilities of the Philippines
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Some extraordinary misstatements have been made as to Manila’s position with reference to main lines of travel and to markets. In this connection Blount says that it is an out-of-the-way place so far as regards the main travelled routes across the Pacific,2 and adds that shippers would not take to unloading cargo there before finally discharging it on the mainland of Asia.