Show FRENCH COAST SINKING A that P will te submerged in ten centuries london globe just lately on the coast of B rit tany one of those geological dis co veries has been made which sug geal to the mind perlous of ti me making the longest hum all life appear but a span and exhibiting processes quite dwarfing dwar fing the most ambitious human achievements this is the disclosure by the dis placement of a marq of sand during thelast bi if flaw forest that M list have been buried fo r some twenty centuries at least the sit is just saint abalo at the foot of ta aliffia of saint and saint Lun alre the I 1 0 real is supposed to have once ex tended from saint to beyond mount saint this dis covery is com eldered of great interest as it a remark able illustration of the gradual sinking of the breuch shore the ro gress of this sicking durin g the last 2000 years 6 clearly show ia iu sick old map found at the jibby of I 1 the mailat bitant michel no more than eevea centuries baak as many as seven parishes are paid to have disappeared by the ence of this region and in the bay of douarnenez Douar theare is known to have existed in the fifth century quite a flourishing town called Is the acene of the legend even now at low water may be teen tho old walls of Is which are called by the inhabitants greggi wall of the greek the people atthe country pretend that they can sometimes bear the old church bells of the submerged ci q ringing I 1 with the motion of the cur rent french geologists that the gradual of the iroil of brittany normandy artois Belgium and holland is bof lets than seven feet a century at this rate it is calculated that in about ten centuries all the channel pt arts wi 1 I 1 be dia troyed it nd paris luelf wl 1 I 1 broome a maritime cit y in another ten centuria cen turis it is predicted that the french capital itself will become entirely submerged except ing perhaps that the top of the pantheon of the are de and some other monuments may be discernible at low water b y the who will then be livio 9 |