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cleared away in places for agricultural improvements. At 

 present, therefore, there are several detached portions, which, 

 however, have the same general direction, and appear to have 

 been connected together. Fig. 138 is from a sketch made by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, when we visited Brittany together, in the 

 spring of 1867. 



Most of the great tumuli in Brittany probably belong to 

 the Stone Age, and I am therefore disposed to regard Carnac 

 as having been erected during the same period. 



FIG. 138. 





Carnac. 



Megalithic erections, resembling those which are generally, 

 but without sufficient reason, ascribed to the Druids, are 

 found in very distant countries. In Moab, De Saulcy ob- 

 served rude stone avenues, and other monuments, which he 

 compares to Celtic dolmens. Lieut. Oliver, also, mentions 

 that the Hovas of Madagascar to this day erect monoliths 

 and stone tombs closely resembling those of Western 

 Europe.* Mr. Maurice ( was, I believe, the first to point 

 out, that in some parts of India there are various monuments 

 of stone, which, in the words of Colonel Yule, " recall strongly 

 those mysterious, solitary, or clustered monuments of un- 

 known origin, so long the puzzle and delight of antiquaries, 



* Trans. Ethn. Soc. 1870, p. 67. t India Antiqua. 



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