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Voyage to Corea and the Loo-Choo Island

by Basil Hall

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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.

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