Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo IslandHall, Basil
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Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island
Hall, Basil
Korea -- Description and travel; Ryukyu Islands -- Description and travel
HONG-KONG, ONE OF THE LADRONE ISLANDS, OFF MACAO.
3. Lead-coloured compact quartz rock, with imbedded crystals of
flesh-coloured feldspar.
GREAT LEMMA, ONE OF THE LADRONE ISLANDS, OFF MACAO.
4. Coarse-grained granite, with distinct crystals of feldspar.
SOUTHERN SHORE OF THE YELLOW SEA.
CHE-A-TOW.
5. Fine-grained gneiss, composed of white quartz, white feldspar, and
black mica, with a vein containing hornblend and crystals of feldspar.
6. The strata are here very much contorted; the cliffs at some places
being folded up like webs of cloth.
7. Granular primitive lime-stone, containing greenish steatite.
8. Quartz rock, alternating with gneiss.
9. A specimen containing amorphous pieces of iron.
CUNG-CUNG-CHEEN ISLANDS.
10. Very fine-grained gneiss, composed of white quartz, flesh-coloured
feldspar, and black mica.
11. Coarser variety of the same.
12. Compact blueish-grey feldspar, with grains of quartz.
OEI-HAI-OEI.
13. Gneiss, composed of yellowish feldspar, white quartz, and black
mica.
LUNG-CUNG-TAO ISLANDS.
14. Coarser variety of the rock described above.
WEST COAST OF COREA.
From an Island in Latitude 37º 45' North.
1. Compact stratified pale-pink lime-stone; variegated in colour; strata
highly inclined.
2. Very compact slaty light-grey rock; strata inclined at an angle of
75º, dipping towards the north-east.
3. Dark olive steatitic rock, containing fragments of granular marble.
4. Very fine-grained greenish hornblend rock.
5. Vine-grained purplish slate; the strata highly inclined.
6. Greenish-grey slate, containing crystals of white feldspar and specks
of hornblend: strata highly inclined, dipping towards the north-east.
SPECIMENS FROM HUTTON'S ISLAND, COAST OF COREA.
Latitude 36º 10' north, longitude 126º 13' east.
The following note is taken from the narrative at page 8.
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