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 "JIU "VJ^ *■■ • iPfci 232 NUJUN. occupying the extensive lands of fruitful plains and forest-covered mountains between the gulf of Pechili and the Amoor. A thousand years after, they are incidentally mentioned as the 8oo8hv/ri ; and the Han dynasty, just before the Christian ers^ knew those regions lying beyond the conquered Chaosien, as FooyU and YUow; the latter of which had its headquarters at the sources of the Hoorha and Songari, under the northern shadows of the mighty Changbaishan. In the third century, the well organized kingdom of Wooji had displaced the Tilow dynasty. Wooji was divided into seven provinces: Soomo, Baitaoo, Anjugoo, Foorde, Haoshu, Heiahwi, and Baisham. This division was still retained by the kingdom of Mogo (Map II.), which had overturned Wooji. But Mogo stood for little more than a century. It was broken up in the convulsive times which introduced the Tang dynasty to China ; and this dynasty knew two independent Mogo kingdoms, the Heiehwi * or Black Water Mogo, stretching southwards from the Amoor, and the Soomo Mogo, with its chief seat where that of Yilow had been. The Soomo touched Qaogowli, and is frequently mentioned as its ally, and was not infrequently its foe. Soomo was long known as Daahw, the "Great Family or ^'Clan, but an increasing power warranted it to assume the dynastic title of Bohai, The conquest and devastation of Gaoli by the Tang dynasty, necessarily threw large numbers of Core^ans north into Bohai ; and, when the pressure of the power of Tang was removed, Bohai rapidly grew in the north as Corea did in the south. The capital of Bohai was to the south, and not far from the modem Ninguta, where that of Yilow had been. In 719, Dadsoyoong, king of Bohai, died, and was succeeded by his son WooyL Eight years after his accession, the Black River Mogo sent an embassage to the Imperial Chinese court on business, which got their land acknowledged under Chinese pro- tection by the name of Heiahwi chow. Because, in former embassies, the Blax5k Water Mogo always passed through 4X^"Biver;" the Chinese Aitoi^ as ''Blade Dragon.*'
 * The ManchQ name of the Amoor is still the same ; Soffhatin betng " Uadc," and