THE SEVEN WONDERS OF COREA.

Mt Benger Mail, Volume V, Issue 261, 13 December 1884, Page 5

THE SEVEN WONDERS OF COREA.

A Chinese paper describes the seven wonder* which Corea, like unto other Oriental countries possesses, and which played a conspicuous role in antiquity. The Corean wonders consist, finrfi of a hot mineral spring near Kin Shantao.whicb is capable of coring sickness and disease of a|? sorts, The second wonder is the two wells, ami at each end of the peninsula, which have Ibo peculiarity that when one is full the other in empty. The water nf the one is intensely bitter; the other hss a sweet and pleasant] taste. Tbe third wonder is a cold cave, from vbich there issues constantly an ice-cold wind, with such force that a strong man is unable ten to stand up against it. A pine forest whicfij cannot be eradicated constitutes the fourthwonder. No matter what injury may be done to tbe roots, the young trees spring up again, likrj tho phreuix from its ashes. The most remark* able, however, ii the fifth wonder—the famous, hovering-stone, which stands, or.rather, appear* to stand, in fiont of a palace erected to its hon.« our. This is a massive rectangular block, freej on all sides. Two men standing, one at eacl\ eud, 'an draw a cord underneath tbe stone from s.ido to side, without encountering any obstacle*, '1 be sixth wonder is a hot stoue, which has beeo. lying from time immemorial on the summit of « hill, and evolving a glowing heat. The Corean wouder is a sweating Buddha. This is) guarded in a great temple, in whose court, for 30 yards ou all sidts. not a single blade of grase> grows. No tree, no flower, will flourish on the sacred spot, and even wild cre«tnrn« «r« f>«»»ful not to profane it.