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is dependent upon them, and strikingly picturesque is the 
position generally selected. 
The tragedies which frequently attend the occupant of 
the Korean throne have led to the establishment of cities 
of refuge within easy reach of the capital, in which pro- 
visions are stored against an evil day. Seoul has two of 
these retreats, the one within a few miles of the Palace, 
to which rumour has it there is an underground passage ; 
the other some 25 miles off. In their selection, and 
in the choice between them when danger threatens, 
the Shamans have also been consulted. Oddly enough 
these refuges are defended by soldier priests of the 
Buddhist Church. 
Among the monumental remains in Korea, there are 
some few dolmens. These are interesting, apart from 
other causes, through the fact that though dolmens are 
common in Japan, they are not found in China, and that 
Korean dolmens resemble in structure those found in West 
India, while the Japanese have closely allied forms in West 
Europe, but have nothing resembling them in Asia until 
we reach the shores of the Caspian. 
Mr W. Gowland, to whose papers read before the 
Anthropological Society, I am indebted for these and 
other particulars, made a special study of dolmens in 
Japan, and paid a visit to Korea, partly with the object of 
examining the dolmens of that country. I had a short 
time previously come across one near the high road from 
Chemulpo to Wonsan, consisting of a rough flat stone, 
about seven feet square, resting on two small upright 
stones placed at its north and south ends. 
Near this Mr Gowland found another, of which he gives 
full particulars. Its site is on “an irregularly shaped 
grassy plot, about one foot to eighteen inches higher than 
the adjoining field, but there are no existing traces of 
a mound, and probably from its construction it was never 
