462 The American Naturalist. 
This account, exaggerated though it was, giving to the mounta 
height of five miles, and to the lake a proportionately expanded 
cumference, showed that there really existed a remarkable eleva 
Chan-y-Peik, the “ Ever White Mountain,” is well-wooded to the 
and thus presents a contrast to the isolated Peik-tu-Shan or 
White Mountain the summit of which is bare, and white | 
pumice. It is the latter which encloses the lake. 
The account of the journey, in the March issue of the Proceedi 
Royal Geological Society is full of interesting matter concerning 
ways of the large-hatted Koreans, their threshing-floors of beaten ¢ 
the pickled cabbages and turnips so dear to their palates, their ¢ 
and domestic animals, among which the black and hairy pig is í 
spicuous. The untidiness of a Korean village offers a marked 
trast to the neatness of a Japanese one, but Mr. Carles gives 
Korean rustics credit for a more thorough appreciation of nat 
beauty than is possessed by any other people. A Korean who has 
climbed a summit stops, not to complain of the toil, but to admire 
landscape. Ham-Heung, the chief town of N. E. Korea, is a wa 
town with twenty-five to thirty thousand inhabitants. 
Tot KACHINS AND THE IRAwADIL—The recent expedition of 
Indian Government among the hills of the rebellious Kachins, Chi 
paws, or Singphos, who occupy much of northern Burma, toward 
Chinese frontier, though they have added to our geographical r 
ledge of the upper waters of the Irawadi, have not solved the my: 
of the Salwin. The upper Irawadi divides into two principal st 
the Mali Kha to the west, and the more easterly Nmai Kha. 
course of the former has been mapped as a result of the Kachin 
ditions, but little is really known of the latter, save that at its 
with the Mali Kha it is somewhat the larger. 
The Kachins seem to be descended from the Karengs, and hi 
ages been subject to hereditary chiefs or Sawbwas; but of late 
many villages have rebelled against these, driven them out or 
them, and these villages are now only governed by ‘headmet 
little authority. This, together with the fact that the peaceful 
villages of the Shans and Chinese are each under the pre 
The district is not one of lofty mountains, but of rugged 
three thousand feet in height, intersected by well-watered 
