360 REACTION OF THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH 



On the side of the continent, in the adjacent penin- 

 sula of Corea or Korai (it is almost united to Kiusiu in 

 lat. 34 and 34^ by the islands Tsusima and Iki), not- 

 withstanding its resemblance in form to Kamtschatka, 

 we as yet know of no volcanoes. The volcanic activity 

 appears to have been confined to the islands near to it. 

 Thus, the island-volcano Tsinmura, which the Chinese 

 call Tanlo, rose from the sea in the year 1007. A 

 learned man, Tien-kong-tschi, was sent to see and 

 describe the phenomenon, and to make a drawing of it 

 ( 487 ). On the island Se-he-sure (Quelpaerts of the 

 Dutch), the mountains show everywhere a volcanic 

 conical outline. The central mountain, according to La 

 Perouse and Broughton, reaches a height of 6000 French 

 feet (6395 feet.) How many more volcanic manifesta- 

 tions may there not still be to discover in the western 

 archipelago, where the king of the Corea takes the title 

 of the king of 10,000 isles ! 



From Peak Homer (Kaimon-ga-take) at the south- 

 western point of Kiusiu there runs a bow-shaped 

 range of small volcanic islands, the opening of the bow 

 being towards the west, and it comprises between the 

 straits of Van Diemen and Colnett, Jakunosima and 

 Tanegasima: and then passing south of Colnett strait 

 into the Linschote group of Siebold ( 488 ) (Archipel Ce- 

 cille of Captain Guerin, which extends to the parallel 

 of 29) it includes Suwasesima, Captain Belcher's Vol- 

 cano island in 29 39' N. and 129 43' E. ; height 2803 

 feet, according to de la Koche Poncie ; then Basil Hall's 

 Sulphur island, Torisima or Bird island of the Japanese, 

 Lung-hoang-schan of Father Graubil, 27 51' N. and 128 

 61' E,, according to the determination of Captain de la 



