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Sil-la period, some perched on rocky heads, some buried deep in the 

 forest, giving shelter to world-renouncing monks and nuns. It is 

 the Yosemite of the Korea, and a favourite resort of Westerners." 

 (p. 18.) 



"A high plateau, Kai-ma land, on the north has a precipitous 

 front towards Manchuria ; the incurves of Korea Bay on the west 

 and of Chyo-syon Bay (Broughton Bay) on the opposite side give 

 some idea of a boundary as expressed in coast lines, and we can 

 trace it in the interior as well. In 1033 Tok-chong, the 9th king 

 of Ko-ryo, ordered his subject Yu-syo to build a stone-wall 25 feet 

 high and thick, across the peninsula so as to check the incursions of 

 NucJiens and Chitans from the Manchurian frontier, perhaps after 

 the model of the Great Wall of China constructed b.o. 220 by 

 Shi-hwang-ti of the Tsin dynasty to ward off the inroads of Huing-nu 

 from Inner Mongolia." (p. 32.) 



" During my journey " (says Dr. Koto) " I saw no continuous wall 

 which might be looked upon as the ruin of this fabulous engineering 

 work, but I frequently passed strong stone gates at strategically 

 important points, such as at the foot and on the passes of the 

 mountains. The Koreans are still very nervous because of their 

 past sufferings, for they have to fear enemies from both north and 

 south." (The northern enemy is not mentioned, but evidently 

 Eussia is hinted at ! whose Siberian railway terminus is at Vladi- 

 vostok, Amur Bay, long. 132° E., lat. 43° N.) 



"From the south they have to guard against the encroachments 

 of the Japanese. Travellers will see the towns fortified all along 

 the south-coast, and in these intermural hermit-towns the people 

 seek in vain a peaceful life." 



It is quite evident that we shall hear more of the exploration of 

 Korea within the immediate future. 



VI. — On Batkachian and other Footprints from the Coal- 

 measures OF JoGGiNS, N.S. By G. F. Matthew, LL.D,, 

 F.R.S.A. [Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. New Brunswick, vol. v, No. xxi, 

 1903.] 



IN this article are described some footprints of small Batrachians 

 from the Nova Scotian Carboniferous. The largest is referred 

 to King's genus Thenaropus, and compared with T. heterodactylus, 

 King, and Anthracopus ellangoicensis. 



The two smaller tracks are referred respectively to Marsh's 

 genera Baropus and Dromopus. They are well preserved, and show 

 continuous series of footmarks. The first of the two has claws on 

 most of the toes, but the second appears to have been devoid of claws. 



There is also a track made by a small arthropod, which had 

 a double series of claw marks on each side of the trail. 



The species described in this paper are Thenaropus (?) McNaugJitoni, 

 Baropus unguifer, Dromopus celer, and Myriapodites, sp. A half-tone 

 plate gives a good representation of these fossil footprints. 



