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dolmen ; and, if they have a meaning, hitherto all experts have 

 been puzzled to decipher it. 



Time would not permit us to visit Gavr Innis, or Goat Island, 

 a granite rock off Locmariaker, although M. Villemarque's descrip- 

 tion of its tumulus and mighty cromlech the latter having no 

 less than ten cover-stones and fourteen upright props made us 

 loth to leave so interesting an object unvisited. The great 

 cromlech at Duffryn, near Cardiff the upper slab being a 

 monolith, which the late Mr. Bruce Pryce was so delighted to 

 show the many savants who came to see it although the largest 

 cromlech in Great Britain, is a child's table compared with this 

 giant's work. 



" Carnac is a good two leagues off," said M. Villemarque ; 

 "and although our voitures meet us there, we shall have to 

 walk briskly to that point, or night will be on us ere we reach 

 Auray again." 



So away we went, stepping along at four miles an hour, 

 crossing the ferry of Kerysfeer, and then over the most desolate 

 and rugged - road it was ever man's lot to travel, till we at length 

 sighted Carnac. And what a sight was it that army, as it has 

 been called, of petrified soldiers all once marshalled in regular 

 array ! Imagine twelve thousand blocks of granite, originally 

 standing at equal distances from each other, averaging from five 

 to ten feet high apiece, and planted upright in the soil over 

 many a rood of land ! But no description of pen or pencil can 

 convey an adequate picture of the grim scene to the most 

 imaginative reader's eye. He must see it himself to understand 

 the place aright. It is greatly to be regretted that no measures 

 have been taken either by the Government or owners of the soil 

 to prevent the depredations committed on this mysterious as- 

 semblage of granite monuments by the peasantry of the district ; 

 for to houses, windmills, and walls in every direction have these 

 stones been appropriated ; and it is now no easy matter to 



