By the Rev. W. C. Luhis. 8] 
are enclosed in a circle of upright stones, which is 277 feet in its 
largest diameter. The circle forms the western termination of a 
group of eleven lines of menhirs or pillars; and if you walk east- 
wards you at length arrive at the other end of the group, at a distance 
of 3,076 feet from the village of Menec. In the course of your 
march two or three facts present themselves to your notice. You 
perceive that the bulk and height of the menhirs diminish gradually 
(t.e., from about nine feet down to three feet), and that the widths 
of the avenues also diminish; and that as you gain the further ex- 
tremity of the lines the stones increase somewhat in dimensions, not 
however rivalling in grandeur those near the circle which you have 
left behind you. You notice another fact, that the eastern extremity, 
which may be said to be the commencement of the avenues, is on a 
comparatively low level, that the ground gradually rises wes€wards 
over an undulating country, and that the heads of the lines and the 
circle are on a more elevated plateau. These are features generally 
noticeable in the other groups of avenues, 
Continuing your course eastwards, you traverse a space of 1,669 
feet, and ascend to a plateau, on which you find the western ex- 
tremity of another group of avenues, consisting of ten lines, 
commonly known as the menhirs of Kermario, taking their name 
from a farmhouse close by. These stones form the termination of a 
grand series of greater length than the one you have just quitted. 
The blocks of granite are of colossal proportions (about 12 feet in 
height), but there is no terminating circle now existing. Ifyou 
follow these lines, you cross a hill by a windmill, descend into a 
small dell, through which a slender rill trickles, and then ascend 
another hill, on the slope of which the avenues lose themselves at a 
distance of about 4,000 feet from the other extremity. Here the 
stones are generally of small dimensions, few exceeding three feet in 
height. As you emerge from a fir plantation, which clothes the 
eastern slope of this hill, you perceive, on the other side of a small 
valley and crowning the summit of the opposite hill, the standing 
stones of a third group of avenues, bearing the name.of Kerlescant. 
A portion of the terminating circle (about 300 feet in diameter) 
exists here, as at Menee, and the lines are thirteen in number, and 
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