original Kersanton quarry is exhausted, but near Logonna, and indeed along the whole roadstead of Brest between the rivers of Faou and of Landerneau, are quarries of this stone, dark grey and comparatively soft when first dug, and thus well suited to the elaborate decoration used in the Breton churches, but hardening with exposure and gradually assuming the greenish tinge one sees at Le Folgoët and elsewhere. There are also many quarries of yellow porphyry among the Kersanton stone.

The next station beyond Hanvec le Faou is Daoulas. Here, about a mile from the station, is the remarkable church of the old monastery and its ruined cloister. The choir of the church has perished, but the cloister is a most interesting relic of the twelfth century, perhaps the finest work of this epoch to be found in Brittany. The monastery was founded in the sixth century by the Lord of Faou, in expiation of a double murder committed by him in the assassination of two priests engaged in celebrating

mass.

"There was in the country of Cornwall, in the year 510, a generous powerful lord named Arastagan, a great friend of God's servants, who had for nephew a Lord of Faou, just as much their enemy as his uncle was their friend. This Lord of Faou, being informed that all the superiors of monasteries in Cornouaille had assembled near him to confer about their affairs, and that among others were to be found the abbots Tader, Jaoua, and the monk of Landt-tevennec, Judalus, he went to the monastery where this assembly was held, and, having forced the doors, he killed at the altar Tader, who was celebrating mass. His followers murdered all the monks they could find, and he himself cut off the head of

Judalus with one stroke of his sword. Jaoua escaped unhurt, and took refuge with St. Pol, Bishop of Léon, who was his uncle, and with whom he repaired to Faou, where they both, by their saintly exhortations, converted this lord, and delivered him from the evil spirit which had possessed him ever since the murder of the two abbots."

In atonement for his crime they made him found a monastery on the place where the murders had been committed, and in eternal memory of this action called it Monster Daoulaz, the monastery of two murders. Besides its monastery, Daoulas was once a place of much importance. The tradition of its decadence is something like that of Escoublac.

Once upon a time a poor woman, who already had a numerous family, gave birth to seven children at once. The inhabitants of Daoulas were terrified at this prodigy, and, fearing it might be repeated, they hunted the mother and her infants out of the town. The woman took the road to Brest, but before she departed she uttered this prophecy : "Brest shall increase, Daoulas shall decrease; for every house that is built there three shall fall." And from that day Brest has flourished and Daoulas has dwindled

away.

The whole coast of the roadstead of Brest is constantly vandyked by estuaries running up into the land, and between Chateaulin and Landerneau this is far more fertile than it is near Camaret and Crozon.

We pass Landerneau on our railroad journey from Chateaulin to Brest. It is a pretty bit of railway, with charming peeps every now and then into the famous roadstead. We cross the anse or bay of Kerhuon on a long viaduct. This

bay is the depôt where timber used in the great marine constructions of Brest lies seasoning.

The first arrival at Brest is pleasant.

We found our

selves beside the harbour, close to the Cours d'Ajot, a fine avenue, commanding a view over part of the roadstead, and close by the strongly fortified castle of Brest.

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