ABSTRACT
The wide Bungo channel leads from it into the Pacific, between Shikoku and Kiushiu, and on the other side the strait of Shimonoseki makes the narrowest of gateways to the Japan Sea. Probably if the captain of a Pacific liner were asked about the charms of the Inland Sea, he would denounce it as the worst piece of water in his course, so winding it is, so beset with islands and rocks and shoals. The sea lies nearly east and west, shut in on the north by a long arm of the main island, and on the south by Shikoku, and closed at its lower end by Kiushiu, which makes, with the end of the main island, the narrow Shimonoseki straits. The last reach of the Inland Sea is an open sheet, some sixty or seventy miles long, almost -without an island.
