영산강 상류지역 포구와 바닷배 뱃길 여부 검토

Abstract

It is common opinion that sea ships reached upstream of Yeong-San river, for people’s previous remarks and the names of upstream places support the it. But after reviewing historically, mainly Chosun dynasty’s documents, it has been confirmed as I write below. In Gwangju district, it is written that there were 8 ports[浦口](1 port[浦] and 7ferries[津․渡]), but there were actually 6 ferries. Those ferries’locations were out of reach of the tide, so it functioned only the roles of a ferrie, not that of port. And I found out that Hyeol-port[穴浦]wasn’t a transport which sea ships can reach. The conditon of waterway wasn’t deep enough for those ships to pass, except for the surroundings near Naju-bridge, where river was deeper than 1M. And in time of flood, the current was too fast for a ship to go upstream. There were other ways to pass the rapids in a river, to dig a ditch, or draw the ship by man power, but it is known that these methods were not used around Yeong-San river. And some bridges, which are critical obstacles for a sea ship to pass, were found in the mainstream of Yeong-San river. In the times of Chosun Dynasty, there was ‘Yeongsan large wood bridge’ in Yeonsanjin, ‘Gwangtan bridge’ to the east of the castle of Naju, and ‘Geklak bridge’ and ‘Sang-ap bridge’ in the downstream of Seochang. In Yeongsan river, no ships were found to go upstream districts where tide didn’t reach. Also, in time of Chosun Dynasty, people in upstream districts like Gwangju,paid their taxes to Beopsungpo or Yeongsanchang in Naju, for there was no marine transportation facilities in their area, and they even didn’t have sea ships which were to be taxed. So, after historically reviewing the upstream waterways of Yeongsan, there was no proof that water transport was done by sea ships there in the time of Chosun Dynasty. So it is appropriate to see there wasn’t a transport in upstream district of Yeongsan river, which sea ships can reach, and ferries just functioned as a crossing river area ferry.