Show road mara beauty of famous mont st miche modern vagabondism has hag its gooe ng as well ns as bad points it was to fu fit elli tate access to mont st Al allalie lelie on the normandy Norr annily coast that the high concrete dike running from pontorson Pon torson for a mile and a half nil was built instead of the galloping horses hoisea which used to drive pilgrim and tourists to the famous abbey at low title tide along a natural sand bank one now sees endless rows of car cais running side by side with a small train it Is much more convenient as one can go or leave the place tit at any hour however that high iilah un submersible wall has had in a disastrous effect on the beauty of the site the sands gradually gia dually rose about n out the cost soon spead ing above the he water mark and ad the thrifty sheep herders gerders her ders realizing the quality of the short salty grass that grew chere there led their animals farther and farther away the coast Is continually altering and ruining the isolation of that strange rocky island on which the old goehle abbey Is built it lins ling finally been decided to cut off the dike at the most favorable spot and build a bridge over the gnp gap then the sea Is 18 expected to draw the sands so that the mont will be treed freed roni rom them |