The distribution map of forms of settlement, Fig. 1, shows that there are four kinds of region on this fan. Namely the region of aggregate settlement, mixed settlement, dispersed settlement, and isolated homestead. In this report the auther tried to explain principally the natural environment of these four regions.
(1) In the region of aggregate settlement, central towns along high ways, fishingvillages along coast line, villages along foot of mountains and groups of houses which gather at fit places to avoid wet rice fields, exist.
(2) The regions of mixed settlement where groups of houses and dispersed houses are mixed extend at the bordering part of the fan and at natural levees of the flood plain of the Ogawa Rver. The Ogawa is smaller than the Kurobe and makes a compound fan with the Kurobe at the north-east part of the fan.
(3) The regions of dispersed settlement where the number of isolated homesteads equals to the number of homesteads in groups consisted of two or three homesteads, extend principally on the middle and vertex part of the fan under the terraces and small part on the terrace. These regions and next regions of isolated homesteads exist side by side in radial directions from vertex of the fan, but the former regions may coincide with somwhat higher zones.
(4) Regions of isolated homesteads extend on somewhat lower zones on the middle and vertex part of the fan and on the terrace. These somewhat lower zones are thought to be used to suffur from flood and accordingly perhaps may be newly-opened region. On the terrace there is no river to irrigate here sufficiently, so this terrace perhaps may be region where man could not get irrigation water until works of three irrigation canals of large scale are constructed.
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