JOURNEYS THROUOH KOREA. 17 



it deposits its load of sand. This little open space owes its 

 origin to denuding action on tlio easily disaggregating granitic ter- 

 rane. Most of the hollow basins that are frequently met with in 

 the interior originated in the same way by differentia] denudation. 

 We landed at a })lace called S'du-baJioi^^ witli nuihanr/.^ and 

 cJi>/i(-)uaks (stalls and taverns) on the west bank (PI. I. /?</. 2), and 

 then proceeded due west for a distance of 3 km to Kim-Jiai, along 

 the southern foot of a mountain, all granitic (hornblende-granite?), 

 excepting Sin-'ô-scm-^ which is capped by the green rocks. 



The eumncil of Kiin-har\ the magisterial centre of the ^™-^-'^ 

 district of the same name, lies on the clean, south slope of a 

 granitic hill (PI. I. ////. ^)) covered with a pine-forest. The eumn ai, 

 like most oilier eumncik, is square, and enclosed by a stone- 

 wall o m higli. On the slope back of the walled village, one 

 finds a conical mound (see fig. i>) where are interred the remains of 

 the queen of Sn-no*\ the founder of the /ir<:/-??a/.; ^-^ kingdom which 

 existed from 42 a.d. to 533 a.d. between the rival kingdoms of 

 Sil -la '^^ on the east and Pak-chijdi'^ on the west, in the region lying 

 between the Nak-t<mf/-(j(wr/ river and the Clii-ri-mn range. In this 

 connection 1 inay mention that the kingdom had been under a 

 Japanese regent delegated by the Empress Dowager Jin-go after 



1) fill ^ 2) nt* m Hi 



3) Mr. Inonyé mjicle a southerly roundabout trip from here to Masan-pho mt Ung-chhyön, 

 thereby supplementing and extending my observations in regard to the areal distribution of 

 the three igneous rocks, viz., quartz -porphyry, diopside-porphyrite, masanite, and their deriva- 

 tives. After having gone southwest from Kim-hrd across the Alhivial flat to the foot of the 

 mountain, he traced the porphyrite as far south as the last hill towards Ung-chhyön. At about 

 Ih km on the east and west sides of the town he found a quartz-irarphyry, which seems to 

 correspond to the southerly extension of the same rock met with between Kim-hïii and Näing- 

 djyöng on my route. Farther on he followed the porphyrite as far as the masanite terrane, 

 4 Am east of Pong-b.ahoi near Masan-pho, to which I shall have to refer in the sequel (p. 23 ). 

 The peak of Chyön-ji-bong is probably porphyrite. 



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