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 explanahok of nahe^ 397 From the scrappy notes appended to the list of cities for each Do, it will be seen that the full history of Corea most be ransacked out of Corean books oa Corean soil For example, in the notes below the list of Pingan cities is the name of the mountain "MiaoaiaTig skan or Taibo, 130 li east of Ninghien, where Tan Jwun submitted to GaolL'' . This seems to point to the time when, after the destruction of Chaosien, the Gaogowli men began to move downwards and eastwards from the head waters of the Yaloo. Of this, however, and most of the merely internal ancient history of the Corean history, we must be content to be, meantime, kept in ignoranca For, as ahready stated, Chinese history is too dignified to notice anything beyond its borders which did not have an immediate reference to the The names in the following list are spelled according to the Chinese pronunciation of the Ming dynasty. When compared with the names written on the accompanying map (III.) as pronounced by the Coreans, these names will help to show the great difference between the Chinese and Corean pronunciation of the same worda The Chinese / becomes jp or b in Corean ; chuen and chwan become chien; chwng^ sefng; yoong and ying^ y^^ » I at the beginning of a word is changed to tty and I and n are transpoaable od lib. The title Tin is given to a secondary national capital Moo is a city held hereditarily by a noble ; anciently all walled cities were baronial The Foo is a prefectural city as in China^ and the Kwn and Ling correspond to the Chinese Chow or Sub* Prefecture; while the Hien^ as in China^ indicates a District Judgeship. Only a portion of these cities are walled in, while every one of the Chinese cities are enclosed within high sobetantial walls. Shan or Ling in the names of cities, or in the notes following the names of cities, mean numntain ; gcmg or hUing is river ^ KDAgfwoy&'kAmgS/ofm. Of the Eight Provincesf, Hamgiang and Pingan are the largest, but they are very mountainous^ covered with forests^ thinly
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