SANDS OF DESTRUCTION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9030, 9 November 1925, Page 5

SANDS OF DESTRUCTION

Quite unknown t° the outside world, says a writer in the August Wide World Magazine, a grim tragedy is | taking place on the coast of Donegal, i Driven by the fierce Atlantic gales, the 5 ( seashore sands are sweeping inexorably ' inland, overwhehniug fertile farmlands 1 beautiful woods, ancestral mansions, 1 and humble cabins, and leaving in 1 their place a vast desert. The author describes how the sands buried a. find old mansion, formerly belonging to Lux! Boyne. “hirer creeping onwards, the shining hanks of sand commenced to rear themselves against the mansion itself. The residents, alarmed, began t° build walls and dig ditches —hut all in vain. Silemly inexorably, constantly whipped forward by the gales, the sands rose higher and higher until, some fifty years after the menace was first understood. the old mansion was doomed. First- the beautiful gardens, avenue-, and vanislmd ; then the hedges, the statues, and the park walls w<re \ burial in the ever-doepering drifts. Fin ad v t!v h.vu.-o itself ins invaded, and tie -.win y Lord 75 •viic. was re-lin-rantlv compelled to .“b " dor ir. “For .) •inn- it. wes po-ib? . lor -.-on! to the r. f. -nd ■■v'm A "end |’pi t* v pi'dp/d y.’pi'j] ]:; i l l w’f i. n n I |;l<r-]y filh-d. Lor :>t Urr i h even * in* | Jugbc-'t :v; or■: v.er-> of'odfod end an I ■inlt.ol.'vt .rrc-Uh ef • hirin''’ s-md. miles ■ | b>.i.gth, "V'-eO fbe house 1 and i'N wide denvem- ’’