Ille-et-Vilaine

Yeah, very understandable.

Yeah, apparently the situation is more critical in San Marlo or in that area than elsewhere in the Ile-et-Vilaine département.

Why is it so bad in San Marlo itself?

Yeah, the Pays de San Marlo, as it's known, is in a worse situation because it relies almost entirely on rain-fed reservoirs and dams that are drying up, basically, whereas other areas in the département can pump water from deep underground.

If it does not show us Cartier as he was, and we have no absolute proof in the one or the other direction, at least it shows us Cartier as he might well have been, with precisely the face and bearing which the hero-worshipper would read into the character of such a discoverer.

The port of Saint-Malo, the birthplace and the home of Cartier, is situated in the old province of Brittany, in the present department of Ile-et-Vilaine.

It is thus near the lower end of the English Channel.

To the north, about forty miles away, lies Jersey, the nearest of the Channel Islands, while on the west surges the restless tide of the broad Atlantic.