le large, 'the open

16. mais te gloire l'a ignoré, • but the annale of glory record it net.'

16. quis'yfait.. ., ' which "uncover.-i " on the north sMe iit low water."

17. le Mont Saint-Hichel ... on s'y enlise. Afont Saint-Michel ié a famouB monastcry deilicatpd to St. Michael the Archange], and standing on an isolated and fortified rock in a bay of tlie same name. The abbt-y building:!, «fter tite Freuoh Revolulion, were coiiTertcd into a prison for nobles ami priests ; the rock duiing the second Empire beciime a pri»on for pulitical offenders. Tlie iibbey church, which springs froiii the centre of tlie other buildings and crowns the summit of the rock, is grea'ly admire d for tlie heauty of its Gothic architecture. The crypt is a aiarvel. For description of tlie graduai engulpliing »f a human beiiig in thnse treacherous sands, see Les Misérables, 5 ° partie, livre n. ch. T.

18. le Couesnon. A river rising in the Menez hills, and which empties itselt in the Kay of Caiicale, below Pontorson.