6 ART. 2.— B. koto: 



above-mentioned party was allotted one of the departments or a 

 part of one of the departments into wliicli tlie country is divided, 

 as his field ; and all liad ample means and time for their work 

 which was carried out under military escort. Their circumstances 

 were thus so favorable that it is scarcely possible that my work, 

 undertaken with slender support and with little assistance on my 

 journeys, will bear comparison. Indeed it seemed so hopeless to 

 try to equal either in quantity or detail the results secured by 

 them under such favorable conditions, that I once thought it 

 would be better to abandon my plan of writing up my journeys. 

 "However, I had started and could not well draw back. So I 

 continued the work which I had begun soon after the appearance 

 of my first paper ; Init my ofiicial duties and my visit to Europe 

 and America greatly hampered its progress. 



The present portion of this series is mtended to give both 

 the diary of my journey in Korea and also the results of 

 laboratory work, supplemented by the facts and geologic specimens 

 kindly placed at my disposal by the members of the above- 

 mentioned Commission. I also entertain the hope that I may 

 continue the work in order to bring it to a close in the definite 

 shape originally intended. 



Korea is but a small patch of land on the globe in the east 

 corner of Eurasia; nevertheless it has an area of 218,170 square 



(1. Inouyé, ' The Mining Industry in Korea, (in Japanese.) ^Mining Bureau, Tokyo, 1906. 



e. , ' Geology and Mineral Eesources of Korea.' Mem. Imp. Geol. Surv., Tokyo, 1907. 



/. Inouyé and Kiiyama, ' Report on Mineral Eesources of Chyöl-la-Do, and Kyöng- 

 sang-Do.' (in Japanese.) IVIining Bureau, Tolcyo, 1900. 



tj. Kanehara and Nakagawa, ' Report on Mineral Resources of ILim-gyong-Uo. (in 

 Japanese.) Mining Bureaii, Tokyo, 190(5. 



fi. ]\Iatsuda and Sasao, ' Report on ^Mineral Resources in Pbyöug-an-Do.' (in Japa- 

 nese.) ]Mining Bureau, Tokyo, 1906. 



i. Okada and Nishio, ' Report on Mineral Resources of .Kang-U'">n-Do.' (in Japanese.) 

 Mining Bureau. Tokyo, 1906. 



