Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island — John Shaqi
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
A chart of our track along this coast is subjoined to this work, in the
hope that it may prove useful to a future voyager. As it was constructed
under circumstances of great haste, it is necessarily incomplete; yet it
will probably be found more accurate than any maps or charts hitherto
published.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: A servant of the embassy, left behind by accident at the
Pei-ho river.]
[Footnote 2: We found the north-east end composed of a fine-grained
granite; the middle of the island of a brittle micaceous schistus of a
deep blue colour; the strata are nearly horizontal, but dip a little to
the S.W. This body of strata is cut across by a granite dyke, at some
places forty feet wide, at others not above ten; the strata in the
vicinity of the dyke are broken and bent in a remarkable manner; this
dislocation and contortion does not extend far from the walls of the
dyke, but veins of granite branch out from it to a great distance,
varying in width from three feet to the hundredth part of an inch: the
dyke is visible from the top of the cliff to the water's edge, but does
not re-appear on the corresponding cliff of an island opposite to it,
though distant only thirty yards. This island is composed of the same
schistus, and is cut in a vertical direction by a whin dyke, four feet
wide, the planes of whose sides lie N.E. and S.W., being at right angles
to those of the great granite dyke in the neighbourhood, which run S.E.
and N.W. The strata contiguous to the whin dyke are a good deal twisted
and broken, but not in the same degree as at their contact with the
granite dyke.
The whin dyke is formed of five layers or sets of prisms laid across in
the usual way. Beyond the small island cut by the whin dyke, at the
distance of only forty or fifty feet, we came to an island rising
abruptly out of the sea, and presenting a high rugged cliff of breccia,
fronting that on which the granite dyke is so conspicuous: the junction
of this rock with the schistus cut by the granite and the whin would
have been interesting; but although we must have been at times within a
few yards of it, the actual contact was every where hid by the sea.
The whole of the S.W. end of this island is formed of breccia, being an
assemblage of angular and water-worn pieces of schistus, quartz, and
some other rocks, the whole having the appearance of a great shingle
beach. The fragments of the schistus in this rock are similar to that
which forms the cliff first spoken of.
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