REPORT BY VICE-CONSUL CARLES, which seem to fall away towards the sea, OF A JOURNEY FROM SEOUL though, in reality, there is a constant TO THE PHYONG KANG GOLD.pacont towards them. At the same time, WASHINGS IN COREA.
the mountains on sither side appear to have The regular road from Boul to GoBER been short of a large portion of their base, makes a considerable band to the east and as the ravines between them and the plateau crosses murusions cluins of mountains, the are not discernible. In two places, viz., bightest of which is or the border of the near Chhōl-wen, and the town of Phyong little trap-rock, but Kung, there f Kang-won and Haut Kyong Proving though there are muy cone shaped hills, When returning from Genson last winter to Soul I heard, however, of a shorter no crater is visible in any direction to so- route, saving 50 out of 550 li, which I gare count for the enormous mass of lava Nei- instructions to follow, but my pony drivers ther could I hear of any hot springs within and Ceroan sorvants, who were grantly 30 miles; and sulphur, it is eaid, has to be scared by rumours of armed briganda in-imported from China, so that she gigantic feating the shorter ute, which they overflow would appear to have taken place coscribed to me
a mero hill track. in the valley, and, to have completely but purposely took a wrong turn at Kosan; 30 ed the volcane from which it cams, if such
wore ite
miles out from Genean, and I did not discover that they had outwitted me until it was too late to retrace my steps. My annoyance at the extra distance thus entail el was increased by the report that some gold mines, the workings at which were rumoured to be far more extensio than any that I had seen, pxisted in the district of Phyong Fang, through which the
alorter road passe
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The
Oats, beans, millet, and reeds are grown upon the plateau which, from its lack of protection against the winds, is said not to permit of other crops; hemp and potatoes are planted where some shelter is to be found; and rice whore sufficient soil and moisture are met with together, being able to clear away the weeds on the scantiness of the population prevents their Towards the end of last month 7 found fallow ground, except by fires, which were that I had a few days at my disposal, of sending up cousins of smoke in every dl which I thought that I could not make rection, and for the same reason the brush- botter than by testing the accuracy of wood on the hill sides is destroyed in a me night. I counted similar manner. anawers, which had born inquiries on this subject, and which, though twelve large fires raging in different parts, the existence of gold in the Phyong Kong and it is hard to believe the people's story district was always denied in the first inst that the damage dono is small, for little at anco, all agreed on fuller inquiry in placing tempt is made to limit the field of the fires
and many are lighted by accident. As a of gold seekerz at 3,000 men. Dmber I
coordingly left Soul on the 20th April rule, all but the dead trese are said to es with N: E. B. Allen of Her Majesty's capo untouched, but I saw ono hill side which an accidentali firs had laid complete- Cousular Service, Our luggage, servantsby bare. It is not surprising that sudor and provisions, were carried on pank ponies, but we sent our own ponies back after the these circumstances no cottages are built second day and completed the rest of the except at a safo distance from the woods. journey on foot, which enabled us to make numerous excursions into the country away from the road. Owing to the backward spring, BAUW was still lying on the north face of the higher mountains, but by the end of the month a grost change was visible, and though: none of the treus were even then in perfect heat, tho willows, alder, poplar, and Birch, were beginning
open their buds, and large banks of purple azaleas gave rich colouring to many of the lower slopes, on which the wild cherry and plum were well
in bloom.
to
The chain of granite mountains which incloses Baul came to an end on the even ing of our first day's march and brought us into a more picturesque though less open country. Away to the east lay the Amsan hilla, where the King is auid to have his hanting parties, and in which are many dr woods of considerable extent. It one of these was a colony of ogrete, towards which hundreds of birds were finding their way, whose white planego made their home cou spicuous at over 2 miles diatsure. Pheas, auts were challenging their rivals or calling sheir matur on the hill-side; in the paddy fields, which lined the narrow valley, a few herons wore standing on one leg, and a. pair of pink ibis, whose plumago had greatly deepened in tint sites autumn, More flushed by the road side.
On the morning of the 21st wa descended the course of a mountain stream as far Chhot-mal. Small workings of iron were aid to lie in the hil's a little to the east, and in the same country I found, on my raturn, mille for the remanufacture of paper, similar to those outside the north gute of Soul. The mountains were all of SOKK igneous rook, but among them were no cones to prepare me for the bridence of volcanic action of which the first signs wore orident, a mile below Chlon-mal.on, eros- ing a river some 80 yards wide, which flows westward to join the Im-jun-gang, the large
of the Han River. tributary
On its farther aide was a bank, not very abrupt, thickly strews with blocks of lave, which led up to a lovel plain about 10
flanked
Bo-rai-yol, a distanou of about 10 miles, and apparently about 3 to 4 miles in width. in the east and west of it are two rivers, 1 by precipitions banks, and uniting at the south-westora corner of the plain. On its face is a curtain amount of cultiva- tion, and a few houses are planted in the hollows worn by the rain, bat in many places the fare, of which the whole is coin
of a plough belag need.
THE CHINA MAIL.
according to tradition, to an incident in the speak highly in its favour. We had a case life of one of the Kings of Kao-kuri, in an of a young lady that had been troubled early century of the Christian ero, resent-many years with pains after eating. fibe bling the well-known story of King Alfred tells us that the pains woke entirely taken and the cakes
away after a few doses of your medicine.~ Yours truly.
As the road which we followed does not pass through any towns, I was not able to init them or their Magistrates, and though provided with an excellent passport, which would have obtained us a gaard had one buon required, had no occasion to appeal to it, and travelled unescorted, finding the people probably more friendly than they would have been had official underlinge boen attached to us.
Chitël-vön, pronounced Chhörön, is the most considerable town near the route that we took, gambering over 2,000 houses, but the country is thinly populated, and we one few villagea of over forty housos.
The following Table shows the little hamlets at which we stopped and their dis- tances from Soul:-
In the Yang-ju district—.
Ta-ra-won Pi-mu-kori
* Tok-tjang
Chhön-mal
In the Yon-oblon district--
So-ral-yol Ko-rin
In the Chhel-won, distriot-
Yong-dune
In the Phyong Kang district- Phyong Kang-won~ Pai-sou-tjang
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This Cleveland (Ohio, U.S.A.) Press, of Feb 28, 1883, publisher an account of a futal anrgical operation which has caused a great commotion among medical men throughout the whole country, Dr. Thayer, the most eminent surgeon in Cleveland, pronouncing it scandalous. It appears that Mra, King had been suffering for many years with auto disease of the stomach
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Outs and potatoes are very cheap in this neighbourhood, but the algence of any large demand for them, and the cost of carriage prevent their being brought to the capital for me. The pony hire fra Pai: nameu-tjany to Soul is nearly double that of the east of the oats, 200 cash or 13 cents a bushel and more than treble that of pota physicians in attendance: The disease com toas, 100 cash a barshal. The result is that menced with a slight derangement of the the production is so small that oven in
digestion, with a poor appetite, followed by April there was no stock of either kinda peculiar indescribable distress in the stor greater that what was required locally for mach, a feeling that has been dorcribed as seed and for home consumption.
a faint all gons eensation, a sticky alime collecting about the teeth, causing a dir-
the morni ugrecable taste,
morning. was not removed by food. This sensation war not remu but on the contrary, it was increased. The
thren syeg became tinged with yellow, and were sanken. After awhile the hands and feat became cold and sticky—a cold perspi- ration. There was a constant tired and languid foeli nervousness, with gloomy forebodings.
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Then followed
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The first gold-washing which I visited was at Ka-neug-kai, a small village about 6 miles to the west of Painamuu-tjang, where about 270 men are said to ha employ. ed. Tranches were bong dug in a bank shingle by the river side, and being driven parallel with the course of the stream, The men worked in parties of six, with one who managed his wooden boxi vory everly, Only small particles of guid are found, but the results seemed uniform and far superior to that of any other place which have visited in Curen. At two diferent washings which I witnessed, and which were said to give about the average yield, three basics of goud earth, representing less than an hour's labour of six men, pro- indead, bat clarly visible at three yards duced about fifteen picoes of gold, small, distance. Further up the valley, where the men were working in smaller gangs, the yield was about the same in proportion to the number of men, but the greater part of the gold-diggers were farther down stream, where, presumably, there is more ore so at tract them.
I do not knew of what formation are the nch of a box of the stream
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foot above the river, extending as far as feet further uns have best carried 500 made, but, to the horror and dismay ofthe i
several feet deeper. There is more focs quos, there was no cancer to be found. quartz lying about in this valley that in the tient did not have a canoor. Whon ather, but the washings are spoken of dish late, the modicumen discovered that they had made a terrible mistake. They paragingly hoth by the men on the spot and sawed the parts together and dressed the by their rivals at Ka-neug-kai.
wound that they had made, but the poor cireumetance, which surprised me at man sank from exhaustion and died in a the latter place was that, according to the few hours. How sad it must be for the men's own account and appearance, the husband of this pour womar, to know that valley had never been worked previously his wife died from the effects of a surgical for gold. In other places that I bave souri,
that ought never to have been The wide extent of plain afforded a per- tari, gold had been sought for ages, and al
what the disease really was); she would with 100 feet Frontage on Middle Street. sides, and even the fine masses of ruck brought down fresh detritus But at Ka-
have
boog
Giving to-day. Seigel's Curative which cap the Sau-kink as To-pong nung-kai the shingle seemed never to have Syrup, a remedy made-expressly for dys Mountains on the north side of Soul were been disturbed, or raster arranged in walla, pepais or indigestion, has restored many
before.
The rack there is of a far harder such cages to perfect health after all other visible through gap in the hills to the south.
nature than that at the other places which kinds of treatment have failed. The evid- Near the north-east berder of the plain I have mentioned, and though a consider erice of its efficacy in curing this class Mr Allen discovered a dolmen of stabs of able quantity of shale lies on some of the cases is too voluminous to be published lava, the upper alone, 6 to 8 feet hill-sides, it is not likely that thora is shore, but those who read the publishers long by 6 feet wide and 10 inches deep, suflsient displacement each year to lay bare evidence in favour of this dyspeptic remedy
do not question its convincing nature; and NO resting on thres stanes about 3 foot high, fresh treasures to the gold-washer.
Whether which left an opening facing almost dvo
crushing would be bat- the article his quartz north.
ter rewarded I am not competent to judge, by at Chemists and Medicine Vendors The next day we accorded a stream for but the country seems to me more pros throughout the world, and by the pre- miles, on the eat of which is a ing than elsewhere, and to be worth the prictors, A. J. White, Limited, 17, For- of mountains known as Po kyel- visit of an experienced miner, who will also ringdon road, London, EC.
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ANCTURE CARE IN POINT. On the afternoon of the 22nd, after not, I think, gold of which the home is so Crofton, Christian Co., Ky., U.S.A., pending 110 feet from the little village of frequently exposed as at Ka noug-kei,
January 5th, 1882, Yang-dam, and passing between large Uhhol-won are the mines of an old capital Walker, last January was confined to her About 10 miles north of the town of
Dear Sir,-My daughter, Sarah F. blacks sof lava strown by the roadside, wa of the Sinra time. My curiosity had been bed, and had been for twelve months, was entered a
a vast plain stretching far to the north. The road skirted ita extremity, excited regarding it by the local traditions under treatment of three eminent physi earthworks near cians, who said she had Consumption and passed near the town of Chhel-won, and connected with some then struck into the field of lava, which in Joun-tjen in the Chhol-wou district, which Heart Disease. The doctors and all that
I passed last your. extent appears
Authorities differ as to w
saw her said she was bound to die. But I to exceed even that of the the site of the Sinra capital, some placing persuaded her to take your Seigel Curative largest in Teeland.
Between Ohhöl-won and Pat-namout new Keum-song, and others on the east Syrup, and after having need bro and tjang (the-pear-trees),
a distance of about coast of Kyong ng Do. I learn, however, half 60 ct. bottles she was rastored to per 40 miles, there is only one break in its bed. from chargé d'Affaires, that at the he had for "ive years. My daughter is His Imperial Japanese fact health, and said she felt better than and that I am inclined to attribute to the Majesty's action of the stream which flows near close of the Siara dynasty in the tenth row living and enjoying good health, but Phyong Kang, baring my opinion on the century several little Frincelets ruled over Lad it not bean for your medicine she would appearance of the banks on either side portions of the kingdoms, and it is probable Lave bean now dead. Youra, &c., (which, however, are in places nearly 3 that it was one of these who had his capi
(Tar.) M. MELTON miles apart), the uniform depth of lava, tal in the plain of Chhol-wün at Tai-kal-
Anyone doubting this can write to a about 100 to 140 fest, and the continuona,
rah F. Walker, Crofton, Ky. nad gradual aseout to the north.
N.B.-If you think this worth printing, a fortress about 350 yards square, the in-please do so; if not, give it to the waste Local statements as to its extent beyond Pai-namou-tjang were too vague to be terior of which is intersected by low walls basket worth mentioning, bat the plain could be of lava, apparently indicating the position seen stretching 40 i (13 mi es) farther, up with a small pagoda, lie outside and to the of the streets, and of the palace, which,
The ruins consist of the eastern walls of
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