PLATE XXm. 



Fig. 1. — Tlie cirmnäl oî Kyöug-jyu, îis seen from tlie west. It is the old 

 capital of Siu-liaii {)^'^%), and later the metropolis of the King- 

 dom of Sil-la (ff ^) from 57 B. c. to 930 a. d. The rectangular- 

 mural city is located on a flinty gravel flat in tlie fork of a river, 

 one arm of which flows westwards down the Kana-chhi pass 

 which we descended hither (see fig.). The plain of Kyöng-jyu lies 

 between the ridges of the Tai-paik-san rang3, the western being 

 that of the Chhyöng-gyöug-chhi pass already referred to (PI. XXI. 

 fig. 1, pp. 95—96), the eastern, that of T'o-ham-san (P± ^ lU), 

 just crossed. See pages 99, 101. 



Fig. 2. — The thing that struck me as most remarkable was the artificial 

 relief on the flat caused by a group of high mounds, about twenty 

 in number, which resemble miniature volcanoes. These mark the 

 sites where the remains of the kings of Sil-la were interred, and 

 under these sovereigns the once enlightened people of the penin- 

 sula left the impress of a high civilization on the history of Korea 

 (p. 101). 



Fig. 3. — The southward extension of the plain of K_y()ng-jyu toward IH-sau, 

 showing to the left the coastal ridge of T'ong-tai-san (5§ :;'c ill) of 

 the ' black series,' m liich terminates at the headland of Yöm-pho 

 (Cape Tikhmeuef) (pp. 101—102). 



