Notes on Rock-specimens collected by W. Gowland, Esq., A.R.S.M., F.I.C., F.C.S., in Korea
T. H. Holland · Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society · 1891
I. L iterature . 1704. A Collection of Voyages and Travels. London. Vol. iv. pp. 623-632. 1818. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island. Captain Basil Hall.London. Pp. 1-57. Appendix, p. cxxi et seq. 1819. Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alceste.’ John McLeod, M.D. Third Edition. London. 1834. Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China. Rev. Charles Gut~aff. Third Edition. London. Pp. 227-249. 1873-74. China-Sea Directory. 1881. “Notes on the Geology of the Corean Archipelago,” Nature, vol. xxiii, p. 417, 1886. “Geologisehe Skizze yon Korea.” Dr. C. Got~che. Sitzungs-berichte k. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, vol. xxxvi, p. 857. 1886. “Beiträge zur Petrographie yon Korea.” Prof. J. Roth. ibid . p. 875. II. I ntroduction Although his visit in 1884 was primarily intended for purposes of archaeological research, Mr. Gowland has succeeded, under considerable difficulties from the ill-concealed hostility of the natives, in collecting numerous specimens, and in making important observations on the geological structure of the interior of Korea. Mr. Gowland traversed the country from Söul, the capital, to Fusan, on the south-east coast—the route thus roughly following up the basin of the Hart River to the watershed (which forms a natural line of boundary between the provinces of Chhung-chhöng and Kyöng-sang), and then from the pass year Mungyong, following the course of the Naktong River