me since you left," being of course an

address from a wife to a husband.

A beginner might fairly stumble over, but the insertion of between the two characters makes the phrase easily intelligible as "ordered the constable." So also

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dark-yellow" is no mean puzzle, until its expansion into "dark robes, yellow caps" points at once to the priests who are thus specially distinguished. But of all examples of ellipsis pure and simple, i. e. where the knowledge of no allusion is necessary to elucidate the sense, commend us to an example quoted in the China Review by Mr. Parker: A - Ń Żeń "If [any other] man can [do] it [in] one [day], [then] I [will give a] hundred [days to] it [rather than fail]."

ERRAT A.

Page 4 Line 2 for 'that' read 'the sense.'

13 'Mun Mong' read 'Mun Mooy.'

10 8 from below, for

3 for 鳳 read 風.

7

11

read.

read .

16 for employed' read intended.'

8 from below, for

read .

before 何術復合上臺喜也 insert

上臺喜便是好官愛百姓

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ARTICLE II.

NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NAGASAKI.*

BY H. B. GUPPY, M.B.,

SURGEON, R.N.

HE remarkable manner in which this part of the island of

THE

Kiusiu is cut up by its several gulfs into the three extended peninsulas of Simabara, Nagasaki, and Omura, is a feature in its surface-geography, which bears especial reference to the configuration of the region at no distant geological period. Although it is an elevated district, considered as a whole, the hills in the more immediate vicinity of Nagasaki varying between 500 and 1,500 feet in height, while Mount Unzen in the Simabara peninsula rises to about 4,700 feet above the sea;—yet there are low-lying regions situated at the base of the peninsulas, which a depression of the land to the extent of about two hundred feet would completely submerge. That there has been an elevation of this amount at some recent period, is demonstrated by the occurrence of a loose bed of water-worn rock fragments, which is exposed at the top of a deep cutting, through which the Nagasaki road descends to the village of Tokeets; and the following description of the transformed topography of this region at that period is not a mere speculation of my own, but is founded on numerous observations made in the several localities concerned.

At such a period the Gulfs of Omura and Simabara by uniting would isolate a large region, extending from the present.

* Read before the Society on the 31st March, 1882.

narrow entrance to the Gulf of Omura to the southernmost extremity of the Simabara Peninsula, and forming an island about forty miles in length. This would be again divided into four smaller islands in the following manner:-by the submergence of its low-lying isthmus the Simabara Peninsula would be transformed into a mountainous island; whilst the sea, by occupying the line of the present road between Tokeets and Nagasaki, would completely disconnect the peninsula which forms the western side of the Gulf of Omura; and the Nagasaki Peninsula would in its turn form the southern prolongation of another island, produced by the formation of the Tokeets channel on west, and by the junction of the Gulf of Omura and Yagami Bay on the east, somewhere along the line of the present road between Yagami and the village of Isahaye; lastly, a fourth, though smaller, island would be formed by the Simabara strait on the east and by the Isahaye and Yagami channel on the west. In such a manner would this region now continuous be transformed into a group of large islands; and, that this was the actual condition of this region at a very recent geological period, I have not the slightest doubt.

Before treating of the subject proper of this paper, I must premise by observing that I shall limit myself to the more prominent geological features of this region; which, on account of the complexity of detail which it presents, requires for its more thorough examination a greater time than I was able to devote to it. Forming the axis or backbone of the base of the Nagasaki Peninsula, are beds of mica-schist and allied schistose rocks; which, whilst they are for the most part concealed on the hill-sides overlooking the town by masses of trachyte occasionally porphyritic, a dark felsitic trap, and agglomerate, are freely exposed to view on the eastern slope of the peninsula, more particularly in the vicinity of the village of Mogi. On crossing the harbour and ascending the hills on the western side, the same agglomerate and trachytic rocks are found; and although I was unable to find the mica-schist in situ, yet detached fragments of this rock gave evidence of its vicinity.