Paul Emile de Puydt
(Born in Mons, March 6, 1810 - Died in Mons, May 28, 1888)
was a many-talented character.
He published a lot as a botanist, as an economist and as a writer.
... Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and were unaware of the existence of the Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in 1809 by a Japanese, Mamiya Rinzo[?]. The ...