. William H. Seward's travels around the world. more by us, for we have taken care not to eatof the fruit of destiny, the lotus. The the steameron the now roughened sea was uncomfortable, but the tossing andpitching of the small boat which conveyed us from the yacht to theside-ladder of the New York was dangerous and frightful. Nagasaki, October lUh.—As Hiogo commands the southeast,so Nagasaki commands the northwest entrance of the Inland sea is a tortuous passage, flowing between the North PacificOcean on the east and the Yellow Sea or Straits of Corea on thewest coast of
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. more by us, for we have taken care not to eatof the fruit of destiny, the lotus. The the steameron the now roughened sea was uncomfortable, but the tossing andpitching of the small boat which conveyed us from the yacht to theside-ladder of the New York was dangerous and frightful. Nagasaki, October lUh.—As Hiogo commands the southeast,so Nagasaki commands the northwest entrance of the Inland sea is a tortuous passage, flowing between the North PacificOcean on the east and the Yellow Sea or Straits of Corea on thewest coast of Japan, separating the northern island of Niphon fromthe southern islands of Toksima and Kiusiu. How and when wasthis channel made? Were the three mountain-islands which itseparates once compact land, and did the ocean force its passagethrough? Was all Japan once submerged, and were the islands ENTRANCE TO NAGASAKI. 83 thrown up in their present form ? Who can say % Not we. Per-haps Agassiz might. We must content ourselves with writing that,. ENTRANCE TO NAGASAKI. like most inland seas, this of Japan is marvellously hundred miles long, of varying width, everywhere deep, itwashes the shores of the main islands in some places, while inothers it is broken into twenty narrower channels which break onthe shores of uncounted lesser islands. In this the Inland Sea re-sembles our own Lake of the Woods, which takes its strange namefrom the fact that the island-surface enclosed within its shoresexceeds in area the water-surface of the lake. These islands of theInland Sea are said to be three thousand, but we are inclined tothink that islands in groups like these are never accurately speaks of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence,without remembering that they are reckoned at eighteen hundred. 84 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. The channel twists around and among the islands in all direc-tions, so that the headlands which we pass seem as fleeting as th
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