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wanting, millet and the ground-nut are grown, and in the shel- 
tered spots the sweet potato, but the natives depend mainly on 
ormosa for vegetables and fruits. The islands offer shelter in 
all states of the weather in the dangerous Formosa channel. 
Port Hamilton.—Port Hamilton was stated, by Mature, to be 
identical with the large Corean island of Quelpart, about sixty 
miles due south of the extreme point of Corea. It is 150 miles 
from Shanghai and 100 from Nagasaki, and lies in the mouth of 
the only exit to the south from the Sea of Japan. It is an oval 
rock-bound island covered with innumerable conical mountains, 
often topped by abrupt volcanic craters, the highest of which, 
Haura, or Mt. Auckland, is 6500 feet high, and bears at its sum- 
mit three craters, within each of which is a lake of pure water. 
Corean children are taught to believe that the three first-created 
men still dwell in these lofty heights. The island is well culti- 
vated, and contains three walled cities and several towns, but has 
are the best in Corea. Iron appears to abound on the southern 
coast. 
Nature and other English papers were, however, mistaken in 
the statement that the large island of Quelpart i is identical with 
Port Hamilton, which is marked upon German maps as situated 
somewhat to the north of Quelpart, and is formed by three rocky 
and elevated islets, 
Asiatic Notes—The name Pamir applies generally to the whole 
region lying at the sources of the Amu-daria. The word is 
derived from dam, roof, and perhaps the Kirghiz zr, earth. It 
extends in the shape of a horse-shoe from north to south 200 
miles, and from east to west 170 miles. This area of 67,000 
Square versts has been surveyed on a scale of five versts to the 
inch. On the eg and south its limits are well marked by sae 
days march haar Soul, oe walls as large as those of the 
capital, but the town has so dwindled that ng is “en agi 
vated land inside. The Kara-kum, according 
the region bounded by the Ust Urt, Khiva, gatua Alston 
