440 The Amorpholithic Monuments of Brittany. [OCober, 
of eleven alignments, which stretch from this eminence in 
a north-easterly direction over undulating ground gradually 
sloping to a lower level, for a distance of 1025 yards. These 
lines, the southernmost of which alone meet the circle, are 
about II yards apart at their south-west extremity, and 
converge to within 5 yards of one another at their further 
extremity; the size of the stones composing them also 
diminishing by degrees to an insignificant size. There now 
occurs an interval of 600 yards before we reach the next 
group of amorpholiths, the largest of which are on a 
plateau near the farm of Kervario. Some of these stones 
are the most gigantic in the Carnac series. 
(II). At Kervario there is no terminal circle, although 
some scattered blocks of no inconsiderable size may perhaps 
indicate vestiges of one, but they are more probably blocks 
left in transit towards their destined situation. 
This group consists of only ten lines, 12 yards apart, 
converging gradually for a distance of about 1250 yards, 
until the traces of their termination are lost in the plantations 
of the Chateau de Kercado. 
It must be borne in mind that these lines are not ab- 
solutely straight, but that each crest of hill or course of 
brook there is generally observable some slight deviation in 
direction of the alignments, which has probably arisen from 
error in the original laying out of the lines, and not from 
any intentional serpentine plan on the part of the architects, 
as some writers would have us to believe. These slight 
deviations go far to prove that the country presented the 
same features and outlines of contour when these alignments 
were planned as at present; at all events that its character 
cannot have materially altered since the days of the con- 
struction of the said lines. 
(III). The third group to be described, viz., the Kerlescant 
lines, is 400 yards beyond the last-named series, and differs 
considerably both from the Kervario and Menec monuments. 
Here there is a terminating enclosure (somewhat of an 
horse-shoe form rather than that of an incomplete circle), 
having a diameter of 96 yards, and associated with thirteen 
lines of stones extending, however, in the same direction, 
e., to the north-east, but only for a distance of 286 yards, 
about one-quarter the length of the other groups, and yet 
the breadth of the whole group is as broad as the Menec 
series, viZ., 110 yards at the western end, giving to each 
avenue an average breadth of g yards, which rapidly 
diminishes, however, to 5 yards at the north-east extremity. 
The eight southernmost lines alone are opposite the horse- 
shoe enclosure, whilst in a corresponding position opposite 
