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Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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looks like a huge spire outin the water, but as you get near to it and lookup at it in all its majesty the impression ismagnificent and indelible. Every square foot of this mountain of rockout in the sea has apparently been built upon,and tier after tier of buildings or battlementshave been constructed until the top is reached;upon which stands the beautiful Abbey crownedby a spire reaching a hundred feet above theminarets of the roof-line. As you look up atthe Mont from its base you are so impressedwith its enormous height and narrowness thatyou cannot avoid the impression that some ofthese houses are likely to slip off the side and gotobogganing down into the sea. There is no other spot in the world just likeMont St. Michel. It has an individuality en-tirely its own, although its little terrace gardensoverlooking the sea remind one of Sorrento andCapri; but its charm is largely neutralized bythe fact that it is overrun by thousands of ex-cursionists and tourists. From the moment 56
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iWant ^t iWicJjel anb g>t jMalo you put foot inside the Porte du Roi until youleave you are being importuned to buy all sortsof knick-knacks and souvenirs, post cards orphotographs. Its restaurants are all representedby barkers who stand on the outside and try toget your patronage, and even after you escapefrom the single street at the base of the mountainand climb far up toward its summit, where youthink you are out of the atmosphere of trade andcommerce, you are cajoled into a museum and notallowed to escape without being importuned tobuy cheap jewelry and other novelties. But, despite all these distractions, despite thehard climb which every one who visits the Montmust take, the view from its summit and themagnificence of its Abbey, the original of whichwas constructed by Bishop Aubert in 700, fullycompensate for the time and labor. Under-neath the Abbey v/e were shown the horribledungeons with which the rock is honeycombed,and lifelike images of many of the celebratedprisoners

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