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A Vanished People

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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On the shores of Iirittany there iis a ■rious ivlic of forgotten p-ges which escapes the notioe of most travelers. says the Million. Far out in the Merbihan sea - across which loggend telis us Arthur sailed with his knig-hts in pursuit of the dragon- rises a little i.sland. It can be reached in a boat from the ooast onlyinaealin sea. A Breton shepherd has a solitary hut upon it and feeds a few sheep. the grassy slope olT which they browse the traveler finds himself at the foot of a hill, in the face of which has been excavated a great tunnel or cave, floored, walled and roofed by huge flat rocks. Some archceologists say that this cavern was the work of the worshipers of the serpent god or Hoa- a race that has passed into oblivion. The unlearned traveler knows only that the mysterious cavern antedates all history; that the rocks of which it is built came from the main land, a distance of more than one hundred miles inland. No rocks like them make any part of the g-eological formation of the island. Even with our modern engineering knowledge and machinery it would require vast labor and skill to bring these enormous blocks of stone and place them so securely as to deiy the wear and friction of ages. IIow were they brought here by men j who had, perhaps, few mechanical appliances - nothing but the strength uf their bodiesand theirfaith in astrange god? The race who built the temple are dust. Elven their ñames ages ago perished from the earth. Their reiiyion is vanished. These stones are the monurnents of their indomitable resolution. That defies the üight of years.

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Ann Arbor Courier