JOUENEYS THKOUGH KOREA. 39 



sands, liaviiig in view on tlio sontli a cliff of the green ernptive 

 wliicli slopes at first slightly eastwards, but in tlie opposite 

 direction near tlie emnnal of Chhijönf/-do (at Iloa-san ^^) forming a 

 slight trongh. 



At last we I'caclied Chhi/öng-do''. Ifc Hcs on the liigli. road Cnnyöya-vo 

 between >\isan and Seoid, the most fi'ef[iiented of tlie public 

 roads in South Korea. 



From the little plain of Chhijö)u/-cIo (90 m), I took the iiigh 

 road to Tai-hi '^, first passing over tlie PIinI-cJio-rijö)ifj ^^ (440 m) 

 down to a narrow valley of porphyrite and Ijreccia gravels, the 

 latter being sometimes colored red. At O-clomj ''\ the groinid is 

 strewn with masanite gravel brought down l)y floods from the 

 west where the granitic rock is intruded into the green eruptive, 

 probably in a iaccolifchic form. Here the valley becomes narrow 

 and the stream torrential, owing to an equatorial ridge passing 

 here with the fault scarp to the north. The slopes of the 

 surrounding hills are covered with a Avell- managed plantation of 

 pines, — a rare thing in the deforested peninsula. 



Tai-ku'^ 



The sandy and gravelly plain of Tai-Lu is the largest in the 

 heart of the hilly Kyoncj-sang-Do. The eumnal is located at the 



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^^) ïn îS ^Vfter leaving Mok-pho, I saw none o£ my countrymen for eighteen night«, 

 passed in inns infested with bed-bugs [pirule'i], so that I api^reciated a bath at a Japanese gen- 

 darmerie station where a single police at arms was engaged in searching for the bandits who 

 a few days before had menaced an American missionary at the hill south of the eumnai and 

 robbed him of his luggage. The next day I saw a foreigner travelling in a palanquin with a 

 long musket in his hand. He eyed me in my Korean costume suspiciously. Now five years 

 later the eurnnäi is a station of the Fusan-Seoul railway. The country is changing rapidly. 



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