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weatlier was cold, and some of the higli points were already white with 

 snow ; nionntain-passe.s liad become impassable, the road h;id totally 

 gone in places, or left nothing but n difticiilt foot path. Such being the 

 state (^f things, I had to abandon the idea of reaching the t<^wn of 

 Fukui by the pass of PIail)öshi, and returned direct to Gifu, for many 

 additional days would have been necessary to get to Nukumi, Kumagö, 

 and ^linomita, all in Echizen, where exteiioive Lmdslips were said to 

 have taken place. 



Although I could not examine pers(^n;dly the devastated reo-ion 

 in the south-east of Echizen, at the boundary of Mino, still I am 

 fortunate enough to h-ive received several reports from village-masters 

 and the police authorities of Xukumi, and, last but not least, from 

 j\Ir. Hiki, another student of geology in the Uni\'ersity. From 

 their l)rief a.ccounts it seems highly probable that the rent proceeds 

 from the summit of Haku-san to tlie poor hamlet of Xukumi in 

 the district of Ono, where eleven out of thirteen hou.es wei'e 

 completely shattered and the remaining two narrowly escaped 

 collapse. It is stated in one of the reports tha.t there is 

 a "fissure running from south-east to north-west, just as i.; the case 

 in Mino, and that one side of Üie fissure has been l)odiIv shifted 

 horizont:d]y for about o metres. It passes by Ivumago,* along a 

 rivulet, and then crosses the pass of Minomata down to the village of 

 the same name on the western foot of the rido-e. The line seems to 

 continue through the villages of Anzenji, and Mizumi to Taniguchi, and 

 eventually reaches Hirose, after traversing the Ijed of the Asuwa-gawa 

 wliich flows at its lower course by the city of Fukui. Throughout the 

 valley of Minomata, dotted with the above mentioned hamlets, ex- 

 tensive landslips are said to have occurred, c;uisinii" dama^'e to both 

 life and propert}^ To the westwards wdthin the Tertiary terrain, I 



* It is erroneously spelled as Ktunai/itwn in the map, PI. XXIX. 



