| Show fh relic ot people on the shores of brittany there is a mysterious relic of forgotten apes which escapes the attention of boht travelers far out in the meriban sea across which legend tells us arthur sailed with his knights in pursuit of the dragon rises a little island it can be reached in a boat from the coast only in a calm sea A breton shepherd has a solitary ant upon it and feeds a few sheep crossing the grassy slope off which they browse the traveler finds hemsell at the foot of the bill in the face ol 01 which has been excavated a great tun nel or cave floored walled and roofed by huge flat rocks some archaeologists say that this caa ern was the work of the worshipers ol 01 the serpent god of iboa a race that has passed into the learned traveler knows anly thai the cavern antedates al history that the rocks of which it is built came from the mallano mam lano a als tance of more than one hundred miles inland no rocks like them matre any part of the geological formation of the island even aith our modern engineering knowledge and machinery t would require baet labor and skill to baring these enormous blocks of stone and place then so securely as to defy the beai and friction of ages how were they brought here by men who had perhaps few mechanical appliances ances nothing tout the strength ol 01 i their bodies and their faith in a strange go d the race who built the temple arc dust even their names ages ago per dished from the earth choir religion is vanished these stones are the monuments of their indomitable resolution that defies the flight of years |
