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 392 GEOOBAPHY. and the path is there so narrow that one man can block it Here the Chinese and Japanese armies confronted each other, nearly three centuries ago, neither being able to damage the other. The following notes on the coasts of Corea are gleaned out of the " China Pilot," published by the Admiralty, London. Those on the east coast are principally from the surveying voyage of the Russian frigate Pallas, which sailed along the shore in 1854 ; which survey was, indirectly, the cause of the murder of the French missionaries (p. 293). Chosan harbour, another name for Foosan, is pronounced one of the most important of Corean ports, because it is the erUrqpdt of the Japanese trade ; — ^but that was in the end of the eighteenth century, when Broughton gave it that nama The neighbouring shores are populous^ spotted with many villages, by which numerous streams fall into the sea. The coast for full sixty miles N.K of this harbour is very mountainous and barren desert Cape Clonard, in lat 36 5f ' N., is the south side of the Bay of Unkofsky, which is four miles wide at the mouth, trends south- west with good anchorage in deep water, though the neighbourhood of the cape is unsafe. PiNQHAi harbour, sheltered by an island, is 30 miles further north than Clonard, the shores steep and the waters deep. The high mountain Popof is west of Cape Pelissieb, to the north of Unkofsky bay. Thence the desolate coast runs 120 miles N.N.W. to Cape Duroch. Sedlovaya, or Saddle-mountain, rises high in lat 38° lOJ' N. DuROCH is the cape forming the southern point of Broughton Bay, which is ninety-three miles wide and fifty-five miles deep. Twenty-four miles W.N.W. from Cape Petit Thouars, the north of Broughton Bay, rises Mt Hienfung, 8,113 feet high; the Belavenz mountains, fifteen miles S.W. of Cape Duroch, being 6,092 and 5,884 feet Immediately to the north of Broughton Bay is Tunghing Bay, with the excellent harbour of Port Lazaref, into which falls the large Dungan river, its various branches occupying the whole plain between two ranges of hills, and winding from one side to the other. The extraordinary