106 STonE REMAINS OF BRITTANY. 
practice of burying at the roadsides—which may account for the 
extraordinary number of crosses which one everywhere sees along 
the roadsides in Brittany. 
In considering the association of menhirs, alignments, 
cromlechs, and dolmens, we come to the conclusion that 
these are the mutilated remains of an immense necropolis, the 
construction of which had extended over a long period, and 
must necessarily have required a great amount of organised 
labour and skill, but nothing is known as to the appliances used 
in moving some of these huge monoliths. This must for ever 
remain a mystery. 
In considering the immense number of Celtic funeral monu- 
ments which extend along the seaboard of the Morbihan the ques- 
tion naturally arises—Why are these monuments concentrated 
in this district? The abundance of blocks of granite in the 
district is at once suggested as a probable cause of this result, 
but we would rather look for the explanation in the Celts having 
chosen this region as a terra sacra or necropolis, destined to 
receive from generation to generation the ashes of their families. 
6th March, 1908. 
Chairman—Mr James Barzour, Vice-President. 
CLAVERHOUSE—SOLDIER, JUDGE, AND SHERIFF IN DUMFRIES 
AND GaALLoway. By the Rev. Dr J. Kinc HEwtson, 
Rothesay. 
John Graham of Claverhouse was one of the most notorious 
personages connected in any way with the south-western counties 
of Scotland, over which he passed like a blight, leaving a trail 
and memory which nothing can now efface. John Graham was 
the son of William, laird of Claverhouse, Ballargus, and Glen- : 
ogilvie, who married Magdalene Carnegie, daughter of John, — 
Earl of Ethie, and first Earl of Northesk. They had two sons, 
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John and David, and two daughters, Magdalene and Anne. I \ 
have searched five-and-twenty likely registers for the announce- 
ment of John’s birth and failed to find it. He is supposed to 
have been born in 1648. A similar doubt exists about the date " 
