Note 3.

Relative to the coastal town of Mosl (now Moslp'o) near the southwestern corner of Cheju Island, the Ch'agwi Garrison (Ch'agwijin) was on the western coast perhaps 21 li (9km) to the northwest. The administrative seat (what Koreans call the p) of the district (hyn) of Taejng was about 11 li (4.7km) NNE of Mosl; and Ch'agwi garrison was WNW of Taejng at a distance of about 27 li (11.6km). These placements are according to the Taedong yjido, a scale map of Korea published in 1864 by Kim Chngho, and are just a tiny fraction shorter than distances that could be plotted on a 50,000:1 topographical map today. See Taedong yjido, a photolithographic edition published in 1936 by the faculty of law and literature of Keijô Imperial University (now Seoul National University), horizontal strip 22, section 14. On the map Cheju samhyndo, "Map of the three districts of Cheju," the name "Taeyasu p'o" (Taeya river inlet) is indicated just off the west coast in the vicinity of what would be Ch'agwi, but there is no indication of the river on the map itself. See Haedong chido, published by the Kyujanggak Library of Seoul National University (Seoul, 1995), vol. 2, pp. 62-63. On an identically named map in the same collection (pp. 64-65), neither a river nor the name Taeya appears. On the other hand, Kim Chngho indicates a river but gives no name for it. My 50,000:1 (dated 1954) topographical sheet of western Cheju also shows a river but with no name.

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