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thrown into the southern sea, the shattered blocks strewn along the 

 coast being now known as islets and rocks. The unfortunate 

 Dr. Genthe whom I saw typewriting at the monasteiy of Sbg-oang- 

 sä near Gensan in Korea, and later killed by savages in Marocco, 

 found on the very top of the crest a perfect crater-lake ^\ 400 m 

 in diameter and 70 m deep, with cold blue water whose shore is 

 the breeding place for the hardy Quelpartian ponies. 



The island of Chy'6i-jyu is the only active volcano that I 

 know of in all Korea; but the active crater is not on the top, active 



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as one would expect, but on an islet at the southwest corner 

 of the island near Tai-chyöng. 



I shall give here the exact translation by Hulbekt '^ of a 

 Korean book on this active crater called Sö-san'^\ " In 1003 a.D., 

 a mountain suddenly rose from the w^ater. There were four holes, 

 and from them poured out a ' flood of red w^ater ' which soon 

 turned into stone. Five years later another wonder of the same 

 kind occurred, and the king of Ko-rybi sent a learned scholar to 

 examine it. The people reported to him that when the mountain 

 came up there was a dense cloud and fog, accompanied with 

 earthquakes and thunderings. After seven days it was all over ; 

 but there stood the new mountain over three hundred metres high 

 and forty kilometres around. There was no wood nor grass on 

 it. It was constantly covered with a pall of smoke, but when the 

 wind blew the smoke away from a portion of the mountain it 

 was seen to be of a dirty yellow sulphur ". The above is a 

 specimen of Korean report and the only one that we have on 

 volcanic disasters. I am not able to locate the exact position of the 



1) It is called Puik-Dtik-dam (Q IE /¥) oi' the "Deep Water Frequented by "White 

 Deer." 



2) Loc. cit., p. 137. 3) ^ Uj 



