See also:

• SEOUL (Han-yang)

SEOUL (Han-yang)  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of See also:

• KOREA
• KOREA, or COREA (CH'AO HSIEN, DAI HAN)

Korea (Chosen), situated in 370 34' N. and 1270 6' E., at an See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 120 ft., 25 M. from Chemulpo, its seaport, and 4 from See also:

• MAPU, ABRAHAM (1808-1867)

Mapu, its See also:

• RIVER

river-See also:

• PORT

port . Pop. about 200,000 . It lies in a See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin among See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite hills, nowhere exceeding 2627 ft., remarkable for their denudation and their abrupt See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black crags and pinnacles . A well-built, crenelated See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall from 20 to 30 ft. high, about 11 m. in See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit, and pierced by 8 gateways with See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double-roofed See also:

• GATE

gate towers, surrounds it . The native houses are built of stone or mud, deeply eaved, and either tiled or thatched . Above these rise the towers of the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral, the high curved See also:

• ROOFS

roofs of the royal See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience halls, the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace gateways, and the showy buildings of the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian and See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French legations . The antiquities are the See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

Bell See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower, with a huge See also:

• BRONZE

bronze bell dated 1468, a See also:

• MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble See also:

• PAGODA (Port. pagode, a word introduced in the 16th century by the early Portuguese adventurers in India, reproducing phonetically some native word, possibly Pers. but-kadah, a house for an idol, or some form of Sansk. bhagavat, divine, holy)

pagoda elaborately carved, but not of Korean workmanship, seven centuries old, and a " Turtle-Stone " of about the same date . Tenets . See also:

• SEOUL (Han-yang)

Seoul has some wide streets of shops, hundreds of narrow alleys, and is very fairly clean . It has an electric See also:

• TRAMWAY

tramway 4 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, and is the centre of the railway See also:

• SYSTEM

system of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country .