History of Corea, Ancient And Modern : With Description of Manners And Customs, Language And Geography
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Each in its turn 262 COEEA, is like a little boat, from the bottom of a sea trough beginning gradually and painfully to climb to the top of the billow, which it no sooner reaches than it begins to go down again. The lands to the west and north-west of the Yaloo, once in Gaoli hands, were now, and almost ever since the crushing conquest of Gaoli, along with all Liaotung and most of Liaosi, in the power of Bohai to the north, whither many myriads of Gaoli had resorted. But if Gaoli found it impos...sible to march westwards, it made itself amends by crossing the Datong, Hiwngjin, Han, and other rivers ; * and, in 936-7, annexing, under king Jien, the whole of Baiji and Sinlo, whereupon Jien's right to the throne was acknowledged by all the "eastern barbarians/' He thus united, for the first time, into one compact kingdom, the peninsula now known as Corea ; which, subject to much plundering from Japan and to the spent force of revolutions in China, has remained intact to the present day, and has long been firmly welded into one.
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