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EAST ASIA.
forward and offered himself as a voluntary victim instead of the thirty, adding that
the dragon would certainly prefer one willing to thirty unwilling pillars. The
offer was accepted and Matsuwo placed in a stone coffin, which was sunk in the sea
Fig.
204. Hiooo-KoBE.
Scale 1 : 43,000.
155' 10 155 15' ED-f-G. ...
to 32 Feet. 32 Feet and upwards.
'
1,100 Yards.
to the entire satisfaction of the monster, who opposed no further obstacle to the
construction of the island.
On the north side of the large island the two cities of Tnuruga and Obama on
Vakasa Bay correspond to those of Ohosaka and Hiogo, with which they com-
municate through Lake Biva and the neighbouring depressions.
These northern
ports of the isthmus, turned towards the storm-tossed sea of Japan, and possessing
merely a narrow strip of arable land at the foot of the hills, could scarcely hope to
compete with the commercial cities of the southern shores. But carriage roads and