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In 1746 Joseph Antonio de Villa-Señor y Sanchez embodied in his Theatro Americano a description of New Mexico, condensed chiefly from the journal of the Brigadier Rivera, mentioned above. The Diccionario Geografico by Murillo is also a source that should not be neglected.
These general circumstances are subject to many local deviations, particularly on the south and west coasts, where the uniformity of the air currents is disturbed by the mountainous islands lying in front of them. According to the Estado geografico of 1855, an extraordinarily high tide, called dolo, occurs every year at the change of the monsoon in September or October.
This statement I found confirmed in the pages of the Estado Geografico: "On the fourth of January, 1641 a memorable day, for on that date all the known volcanoes of the Archipelago began to erupt at the same hour a lofty hill in Camarines, inhabited by heathens, fell in, and a fine lake sprang into existence upon its site.
Pigafetta describes a city called Cingapola in Zubu, and Leyte, on his map, is in the north called Baybay, and in the south Ceylon. No mention is made of it in the Estado geografico of the Franciscans, published at Manila in 1855.
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