136 ART. 2.— B. KOTÔ: 



The geology of the Outer and Inner Groups has been entire- 

 ly unknown, not to mention that of other groups of the Korean 

 Archipelago with the single exception of a short remark by H.B. 

 Guppy'-* who, during a brief visit of the " Hornet" to tlie Korean 

 Archipelago in 1878, found quarfczito and quartzose rock on the 

 island Makcm (Mäl-Ln), one of the Great Heuk-san subgroup. 

 " Underneath the quartzite occurred a higlily micaceous rock and 

 a gneiss traversed by veins of quartz, which occasionally separat- 

 ed the contiguous rock. The dip was 15 N.E." 



Quelpart 



If Korea is the " Italy of the East," then Quelpart or Chf/öi- 

 jlju ^^ is its Sicily. The island lies some fifty miles off the south- 

 ern coast of Chyöl-Ia-Do ', and in reaching it from O-ran-plio''^ oi 

 Häi-nam, Korean boats usually call at the smaller island, Chlujo- 

 jä-clo ^^ or ' Weather- waiting Island ", which lies south of 34 N. 

 Quelpart is the largest island in the South Korean Archipelago, 

 and also in the Korean domain, extending east- west 72 km by 31 

 km north-south. It is a volcanic island, the volcano being only 

 active one in all Korea. It rises steeply about 0750 feet from 

 the sea-bottom which lies 50-GO fathoms deep ; and geologically 

 it is not directly connected with the backbone of the 

 Tai-paik-san range in the peninsula, as has been repeatedly as- 

 serted, for although the island is of course related to the peninsula 

 in an indirect way, there is nothing to show that it emerged 



1) "Note on the Geology of the Corean Archipelago" Nature, Vol. XXIII. 1881, p. 417. 



2) ^ iW Bi ^^6 Piige 54. Formerly (from the Silla epoch) the island was called Tam-la 

 or Tam-na (I('Jt IfÜ or %% ^E S^)» t)ut the name was changed to the present one in 1295 A.n. 



3) nm m (m\ig: Xan-ryang?). 



4) W. ?- Bi) «T 1^ iS* Ê. ùne of the Chho-rau-.lo Group. 



