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marine abrasion. They imperceptibly grade into the dry sandy 

 plain which skirts the west coast. 



Shallow basins in the labyrinthic interior are also sand -buried, 

 and in the rainy season from July to September swollen streams 

 spread mercilessly over the ever changing shallow river-bed. At a 

 few points, e. g., between Ulsan and Fusan (p. 104), and at 

 Chyang-lieung on the south coast (p. 53), gravel terraces could 

 be seen which may belong to the Old Alluvium or the post- 

 Diluvium. Such gravel terraces were observed by the writer at 

 Kyong-jyu (p. 98), and by Mr. Inouye at the Keum-gu gold field 

 west of Chyön-jgu. 



P.S.— In the present paper I have purposely omitted the section on the 

 orogenic history of the part of the peninsula under question for various 

 reasons ; firstly, that a general sketch has already been given in my former 

 paper : " An Orographic Sketch of Korea," (This Jour. Vol. XIX. Art. 1) ; 

 secondly, that my view was criticised by some (pp. 2-4) so that to ventilate 

 the question requires detailed analyses of the orography of the peninsula — a 

 problem not only of Korea, but of the whole of eastern Asia ; thirdly, that 

 the present paper deals with only a quarter of the peninsular area, and 

 therefore is not fitted to give expression to the broad problem of the whole 

 peninsula though my view may be gathered from scattered notes in the 

 diary of the " Three Traverses " already given. For these and many other 

 reasons it would be better to postpone the statements on the orogenesis of 

 the present region to a future occasion when the whole peninsula could be 

 treated in a more general way. 



