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 18 CHAOSIEK. J remained faithful to the Tsin dynasty when it was overthrown. When a son was [born among this people, a heavy stone was pressed against his head to flatten it* Bien han, to the south of it» can have had no distinctively peculiar customs, for none such are related. Both these Han became merged afterwards into the kiDgdom of Sinlo. Its grades of officials numbered sixteen, — the highest of which was called Dsoping, and the second Daaivai. Each of the pvovinces was under a Fcmgling, who was a Baswai. Each province was divided into five districts (Eun), each of which had three military officers of the fourth grade, called Du9wai. Baiji officials were sinular in all respects. Hence those who know Chinese will at once infer, that though there may have been Chinese immigrations, the population was not Chinese, for Chinese official ranks have always been nine. Whi kingdom was south of Gaogowli and Wojoo. At one period of its history it extended west to Funghwangchung. Originally it was under the rule of Chaosien; and with it, is said to have received, through Eitsu, the civilization of China. In B.C. 169 it had 28,000 able-bodied (Ding) men. When Chaosien was broken up. Nan Lu, a prince of Whi, established an independent kingdom thera The land produced cotton and silk, and very small horses,"f'— called under-fruit-tree horse, because it could pass under the branches of a fruit tree with its rider on its back. It was about three feet high. Gaogowli, to the north of it, produced the same minute horse. And as no mention is made of it either among Chaosien products, or those of the Three Han, we must conclude that this diminutive horse, now so common all over western Corea, came from the north of the of tying a piece of board behind the head to make it straight up and down. VHiat will phrenologists say to the practice ? Certainly no remarkable result is ever manifest, though the back of the head rises up in a line with the nape of the neck. f This horse is of the same height as the Shetland pony, but much more strongly and less gracefully formed. The author was astonished to find a small horse very like the Corean in Singapore, on the Malay coast; this, however, was a native of the islands south of Singapore. We have never heard of any such diminutive horse in any portion of China proper.
 * In Manchuria at this day, even the Chinese follow the ancient^anchn costom