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SEOUL (Han-yang) , the capital of Korea (Chosen), situated in 370 34' N. and 1270 6' E., at an altitude of 120 ft., 25 M. from Chemulpo, its seaport, and 4 from Mapu, its river-port. Pop. about 200,000. It lies in a basin among granite hills, nowhere exceeding 2627 ft., remarkable for their denudation and their abrupt black crags and pinnacles. A well-built, crenelated stone wall
double
cathedral
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marble pagoda elaborately carved, but not of Korean workmanship, seven centuries old, and a " Turtle-Stone " of about the same date.Tenets. Seoul has some wide streets of shops, hundreds of narrow alleys, and is very fairly clean. It has an electric tramway 4 M. long , and is the centre of the railway system
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