4 ART. ti, — B. KOTO : 



are purely accidental, and I confess that I am not a little proud of 

 tliem ; but though I am alwaj's ready to follow the good example of 

 others, I emphatically deny the charge of having simply imitated 

 tlie master in my mode of explaining the orogenesis of the Korean 

 mountains. It was unfortunate that my paper appeared during the 

 first phase of the Kusso-Japanese Avar when the blood of patriotic 

 Frenchmen was liot with russophile sentiment. 



Herr Dr. Th. Lorenz made a jourue}' in Shan-tung, and is 

 enthusiastically engaged in intarpreting the mountain-building of that 

 peninsula, as well as of Korea, by dislocation originating in the torsion 

 of tectonic lines corresponding to the resultant of the parallelogram of 

 forces. In 1903, we met frequently in Freiberg i.S. and I enjoyed 

 hours of conversation with him. Afterwards he wrote an elaborate 

 work ^\ and I found in it to my great astonishment the following clause : 

 " Ich bin sicher, dass Koto heute seine Einteilung der Gebirge Koreas 

 gern preisgeben Avird. In winter 1903 hatte ich Gelegenheit, mich mit 

 ihm persönlich ueber die geomorphologischen Probleme Ostasiens 

 auszusprechen. Ich hatte die Genugtuung, dass mir Koto in allem 

 zustimmte." At the time I simply listened to all that it pleased him 

 to say ; but Avhether I accepted his views or not is quite another 

 thing. So far as my present knowledge of Korea is concerned, I have 

 not the slightest inclination to withdraw the statement made in my paper. 



It is a mistake to say that I Avas much iofhienced by hypotheses or 

 theories in constructing tectonic trend-lines in my paper. I simply 

 recoided Avliat I had seen or thought I had seen in the field. 



J3ut it is out of place here to indulge any further in these or other 

 comments. I shall take up the subject again on another occasion. 



Mr. Yabé, on my suggestion, made two trips to the south of 

 Korea, in 1903 and 1904, thus supplementing my journeys during 



1) Loc. cit., p. 195, footnote. 



