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 WEST COAST. 393 statement is made that this river "probably extends to Seoul," the capital, which is only "30 miles distant from Tunghing'^I From Cap£ Bruat, or Boltin, sixty miles north-east of Petit Thenars, is the eastern extremity of a long range of mountains, in which Mt Taokwang rises 6,309 feet The coast thence is very mountainous and inaccessible. Eolokzev point is very high, and in lat 4 L"" 47' 40'^ N. The coast, leaving the small bay here, trends north-east again to Goshkeyich Bay. Casy point, the south extreme of the peninsula of Susora, forms the south end of this bay. Eighteen miles west of this pointy and rising 4,215 feet above the sea, is Mt Chienlong ; four miles to the east of the point a large river enters the sea. This is the Toomun, whose mouth is in lat 42° 19^ its southern bank formed of high mountains for at least ten miles ; but to the north no high hills are visible. Here the Pallas finished her survey. The Island of Chodo lies in a bight of the south-west coast in lat 38** 27' north, long. 124** 34J east The island is populated, and the neighbouring coast crowded with villages. JoACHiN Bay is in lat 36 ° 53 J north, and long. 126 ° 17| east The coast there is also teeming with villages, and the sea is mostly a lagoon. Caboline Bay is a narrow one in lat 37^ 1^ north, long. 126"" 25' east, with numerous viUages on the shore. Deception Bay is in lat 37** 3' north, long. 126** 33' east A few miles further north is the Pbince Imperial Archipelago, whence were seen junks anchored before every village, — some of them of 150 tons, — ^and eveiything betokened the presence of a large river, which, however, was not explored by the French Virginie. From the great crowds of people on the shore, the numbers of mandarins looking on, — many of them professedly from the capital, — and from the native information that the ship was within the provincial jurisdiction of the capital, the Virginie implied that Seoul was not far distant The mountains also seemed to indicate that the river went south-east then east As the French ship gives little further information interesting to general readers, we may bid her farewell, stating that she inferred that the coasting trade was important to the Coreans,