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admitted, cannot be an accidental circumstance. So, too, 
the avenues are similarly orientated. If, therefore, the 
builders of the tombs had a religious reason for this 
arrangement, the same motive must have been dominant 
in the minds of the constructors of the avenues; and the 
inference is not without force, that the same people erected 
both. This arrangement may be a token of their religious 
reverence for the deified orbs of heaven, the sun and moon.” 
—(P. 13 of Mr. Lukis’s paper). To this we would aad that 
this orientation, which is attributed to all these monuments, 
as regards the dolmens and tumuli, is well substantiated ; 
but on looking at Mr. Vicars’s map of the Carnac district in 
**Rude Stone Monuments,” and the position of the stone 
avenues, we cannot fail to remark that the lines of Erdeven, 
St. Barbe, and St. Pierre, are nearly at right angles to those 
of Menec, Kervario, and Kerlescant ; and again, that whilst 
the prevailing point of the entrances of the dolmens is south- 
east, the general direction of the three Carnac groups of 
alignments is considerably north of east. (Compare the 
points of compass given in table of the alignments.) 
3. ‘* The stones are always largest at the western termi- 
nation, and of small size in the other direction. In the 
Menec and Erdeven groups, however, the stones slightly 
increase in size towards their commencement.” 
4. “‘ Where there are circles connected with the lines, 
they are always at the large ‘end.’”’ 
5. ‘ The circles are composed of stones differing in form 
from those of the lines. They are thin and wide, and not 
so tall as the tallest of the lines, averaging about 5 feet 
above ground.” 
6. ‘‘ The stones of the circles nearly touch each other, 
whereas those of the lines have spaces of from 7 to 20 feet 
between them.” 
7. “The average distance between the lines at the west 
end is. 30 feet, at the east end 18 feet.” 
8. “In no case is there, strictly speaking, an attachment 
of the’circle to thelines.” 
Further, it appears probable to’ Mr. Lukis, ‘‘ that the 
number of the lines in each series was determined at first, 
and the whole number begun at once.” The size of the 
stones indicates this. Again, he presumes “that they were 
begun at the west end. Probably in all cases the circles 
were added last, at least after the wider or west portion of 
the series had been erected; because at St. Pierre, Qui- 
beron, the circle is 77 yards on the south side of the lines, 
at Menec the centre of the circle is south of the direCtion of 
