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Fig. 1. Sketch-map of Mt. Fuji and its neighbouring peaks. 
Provincial boundaries. 
I. PHYSIOGRAPHY. 
As vegetation lias a close relation to the physiography of 
its locality, we must before going into details pause to con- 
sider the geology and climate of Fujiyama. Further, in order to 
study the relation of the flora of one mountain to that of another, 
we must necessarily know the geological relation between them. 
This chapter, therefore, will be devoted to the consideration of 
geology of this mountain and the neighbouring ranges, so far as 
is needful for investigating this subject. 
Mt. Fuji, rising from the broad plain between the Pro- 
vinces of Kai and Suruga, is a well defined elevation. It is 
