The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-26
SEVEN WONDERS OF conEa.

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"Thc seven wonders of Corea are az
follows, says an English traveller: 1.-THE
first is certain hot mineral spring near
place called -shin-tao. the healing
properties Of which are believed 20 he
miraculous. Its virtues are in constant
vlgor, and so great are they that they
have never failed in efficacy within the
memory of man. No matter what dis.
ease may afflict the patient, dip in
these healing waters will prove as sure
cure as a bath in Jordan did to leprous
Naaman. The second wonder is also
connected with water. There are two
springs situated at considerable dis
lance from each other-in fact, there is
almost the breadth of the entire peninsula
between them. These have two peculi.
arities -while one is full the other is
empty; and the Coreans seem to believe
that somewhere deep in the bowels of
the earth there is mysterious tide which
GIBBS and flows with marvellous rapidity
at stated intervals of time. filing one
spring while it empties the other. But
the strangest part of the phenomenon is
that the water is SO strongly sweet that
whatever is cooked in it. no matter how
bad it may be of itself, Immediately &C.
quires most delicious taste. The third
is called Cold Wind Cavern. There is
cave somewhere in the mountains in
which mysterious wind blows perpetu.
ally-a wind SO cold as to pierce to the
very bones, and so strong that the most
powerful man is unable to stand against
it. The fourth wonder is the ineradica-
BILE forest. There is large grove of pine
trees that sprout again directly after they
are cut down. 1t matters not what in
jury is done to the root, nothing will
avail to destroy it, but up it will sprout
again in no time, like phoenix from its
own asher. The fifth wonder is more
wonderful still. This is the floating
stone, and temple has been reared in
its honor, called the Fou Shi Mao. In
front OF the temple stands, or appears to
stand, the extraordinary stone. 1t is OF
great bulk, and a sort of irregular cube
in shape. To all appearance it is resting
upon the ground, and is perfectly free
from all support on any side. BIT if
wo men. standing at opposite ends of it,
hold each the opposite ends of thread,
they will find themselves able to pass
the thread under the stone without en-.
countering any obstacle. In other words,
the stone is actually lowering a little
way above the earth. The sixth wonder
also consists Of stone, but stone of
more practically useful nature. 1t is
called the warm rock, and forms the
summit of a hill upon which there is
pavilion, or kiosque, for the benefit of
travellers. Here they may rest and pass
the night. However cold the weather
may be. there is no stove, nor any need
for one; the stone on which the resting
room stands diffuses a wonderful and
benign warmth through every room in
it. and the poorest may bask in its COM
fort The seventh wonder is drop of
the sweat of Buddha. Around the large
temple where it is enshrined, for thirty
PAGES square, not blade of grass will
grow; there are no trees, no flowers, the
very birds and animals desert it, instinct
lively recoiling from profaning with their
football plot of ground so holy"