JOURNAL OP THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, 

 TOKYO, JAPAN. 

 VOL XIX., ARTICLE 1. 



An Orographic Sketch of Korea. 



By 



B. Kotô, Ph.D., Rigakuhakushi, 



Professor of Geology, Science College, Imperial University, Tokyo. 



With Plates I— IV. 



I. INTRODUCTION. 



Korea is the Italy of Eastern Asia. It stretches out from the main 

 body of Manchuria in a southerly direction between the cul de sac 

 of the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, both being fringing seas, as 

 Italy projects between the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. 



On the north and north-west the Korean peninsula is bounded 

 by a well-defined topographic feature — the equatorial range of 

 Chyang-päik-san, and a southerly-lying basin drained by the Am- 

 nok Gang and the Tu-man Gang. Similarly the peninsula of Italy 

 is limited on the north by the Alps, and the plain of Po. 



Both peninsulas stretch about 10 degrees meridionally ; Korea 



1) The Ya-lu-Kiang (çfc.fàïl) o f the Chinese, signifies the duck-green river from some 

 resemblance of the colour of the river-water to that of a duck's neck. The G<nui or Kang {%£) 

 signifies in the Korean large, and chhyön (j||), mul <>r nai (7M small streams. 



