| Show TIlE ARD Just What Island Is and Where It Lies Island belongs to Nova Scota Scotia Is 15 mie miles from rm Halax halifax and I 15 mie mItes east of Capo Cape Cause wrItes obbe In J lo for February I II is s a was waste seamed b by wind and wave ne and ot of Ing aspect A hl hili near the east end nd on once I a mere undulation of bC sand Ilind I Ij now over 1 hundred t feet 1 high and nd is ie still growing Other are gradually mowed away by storms The Tho are lable liable to be under undermined undermined mined so 0 swim swiftly and swept out of ex cx exIstence that they are watched front the varIous arlous stations on the island Iland and nd there thero being n no certainty bow tar far taran faran an Inroad ot of the sel sen wl will extend aler after each successful atack atack I Even en the coarse coue grass gru of the lland island grown grol In a a different manner from that ot of the main mainland mainland land It doe does not bear seed eed but shoots up from roots root which run Qiong under the sand During the winter the sand sandIs II Is blown over the grass and burie buries It sometimes three or four feet teet deep But Dut IP the hary hardy blades grow up nut next season ealon as aa II If te the island bland sands had protected them from the tho CI winter In order to make them al all the stronger The island Itel itself Is fighting or self It seems u as I if I it drew ships ship Into It embrace a as rallying for tor its looe and shIfting sand point thus hul to protect Is by 1 at b lark bulwark of wrecks annIhIlation by th the sea Tradition sas that when Sable Island bland was U dIscovered by Cabot In It was eighty me miles long and ten mites wide In when a rescue w was s es 10 there It Il Was os fort forty miles long Since then It ha has shrunk to lt little more than twenty lite and In width it Is only a mie t It I widest Within years the widest western end lost coven cen mie miles Shoals Shoal o over r which the ocean now JIOW surges urge ore are pointed ted out I as former ormer sites o of lIht houses One of these wa was so fO undermined b by the sea sra that It had to tobe tobe be abandoned with the tho greatest The spot where once stood the superintendents house is II p w under two fathoms ot of water To The island rapIdly diminishIng at It its western end Is slightly gaining at It its eastern Slowly like n a ship hilI dragging It its 1 anchor It II IS moving eastward Wi It ever eer reach the edle edge ot of the shoals stand tand tottering on the brink ot of the UI tIll I It receives I its coul and plunge over ever the submarine bank forever Into the depths depth Unfortunately Il Its end will probablY be less leu There I Ii rood good Iund ground for believing that this gray send and bar will 1 slowly wear ea away until I It becomes become another anether sub aub submerged merged shoal hoit added to an ambuscade alreadY Ime some sixty miles In it Ino line of oC breker breakers extends sixteen mie miles from one end of the Island bland ond twenty ight mie miles from the other I |
