AX OROGRAPHIC SKETCfl 01 KOREA. :, 1 



TV. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY. 



[n recapitulating what has been stated in the foregoing pages, 

 I must first of all say that the geological-structural lines upon which 

 the present paper has been woven, may not be entirely intelligible to 

 the reader without some prefatory geological description accompanied 

 by a geologic map. Some may even cast doubt upon my statements 

 which, of course, must await verification by future observers. Tn re- 

 gard to the geology of Korea, I hope I shall be able within a few 

 months to give general outlines with an account of the geological his- 

 tory of the peninsula. 



Korea is, as I have said, the Italy of Kastern Asia jutting out 

 southward from the main body of Manchuria, just as Italy does from 

 the other end of Eurasia. Tt is limited on the north by the equatorial 

 chain of Chyang-päik-san which is looked upon by the Koreans as an 

 offshoot of the u'reat Kuen-lun, after being interrupted in its eastward 

 course by the depression of Liau-tung at I-wu-lii-shan. On the south- 

 ern foot of the Chyang-päik-san range lies the basin of the Am-nok 

 and Tu-man Gang which are separated from each other at Hyöi-san- 

 nyöng (700 m.) by a lava-flow from Paik-tu-san, the highest point 

 (<S,Ï)00 feet) 13 of the Chyang-päik and the cradle 50 of the Korean nation. 

 The Alps and the plain of the river Po are the counterparts of these in 

 the Italian peninsula. They lie nearly in the same latitude, enjoy ;i 



1) 8,025 ft. in James' The Long White Mountains, p. -2&1. 



2) " The sacred importance of the White Mountains has heen recognized in the Far Easl 

 for ages. They are first heard of under the name of Bu-khian-s in (^$,\1\) [see ante 6] ; a name 

 not of Chinese origin, bat reminding one of the Mongol Burkhan, as the Gentohi Mountains in 



Mongolia (according to some, Kban-ola at Urga) wer«« called in ancient times." " in the 



Clian-hai-king (UlîgfS), or book treating of s >as and mountains, it is called Pan-hien-chun." 

 [This seems to he misspelled. U.K.] As tu the Chinese mythological history of the White 

 Mountains, T refer the reader t.. th.' paper by the Archimandrite Palladius {Expedition 

 through Mongolia), translated by Delmar Morgan. Proceedings 7?. G. S., 1ST::. 



