216 A. S. Bickmore on the recent 
me that Castel Zelandia, a fort built by the Dutch in 1634, on 
what was then an island, is now some distance back from the. 
river and in the center of the city of Taiwan fu; also that at 
aka0, recent crabs and recent shells are found at a height of 
1,111 feet above the present level of the sea. 
ring my travels in the north of China, I came to Chefoo 
on the northern side ot the promontory of Shantung, and Capt. 
Shufeldt, of: the U. S. ship Wachusett, kindly took me over to 
bay of Yedo, a plateau some 200 feet high. its top as level as 
if made by the hand of man. -A Per a rie Yokohama 
back to Kanasawa, Ppt across to the bay of Kamokura, and 
of the once continuous plain. ; 
__ In the bay of Kamokura is the island Inosima. At present 
it 1s connected to the main land by a sand spit, about half a 
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