Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-06-28
SEVEN WONDERS OF COREA.
Some Extraordinary Natural Features
Of Mysterious Land.

THE seven wonders of Corea are rs fol
lows" says an English traveller: THE first
is a certain hot mineral spring near place
called Kin-shin-tao, the healing properties
of which are believed to be miraculous. Its
virtues are in constant vigOr, and so great
are they that they have never failed IN efl-
cacy within the memory of man. No matter
what disease may atflict the patient, dip in
these healing waters will prove as sure a
cure as bath in Jordan did to leprous Naa-
man.
"The second wonder is also connected with
water. There are two springs situated at a
considerable distance from each Other-ln
fact, there is almost the breadth of the entire
peninsula between them. These have two
peculiarities-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 ebbs
and flows with marvellous rapidity at stated
intervals of time, filling 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, i'm
mediately acquires a 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 ineradicable for
est. There is large grove of pine trees that
sprout again directly after they are cut
down. 1t matters not what injury is done
to the root, nothing will avail to destroy it,
but up it will sprout again in no time, like a
phoenix from its own ashes.
"The fifth wonder is more wonderful still.
This is the floating stone, and temple has
been reared in its honor called the Fou Shi
Miao. In front of the temple stands, or ap-
pears to stand, the extraordinary stone. 1t
is of great bulk, and sort OF irregular cube
in shape. To all appearance it is resting
upon the ground, and perfectly free from all
support on any side. But if two men, stand
ing at opposite ends of it, hold each the OPP
posite end of thread, they will find them
selves able to pass the thread under the
stone without encountering any obstacle.
I'm other words, the stone is actually hover
ing little way above the earth.
THE sixth wonder also consists OF stone,
but stone of more practically useful ma
ture 1t lis called the warm rock, and forms
the summit of hill upon which there is a
pavilion or kiosque, for the benefit of travel
ers. 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 its
wonderful and benign warmth through
every room in it, aad the poorest may bask
in it's comfort.
"The seventh wonder is a 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, instinctively recoiling from profan-
ing with their football plot of ground so
holy"