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Channel Islands " has the following remarks : 



" THE CROMLECHS. After the investigation of about twenty 

 of these chambers of the dead, and examining their contents, 

 the result has been convincing aad satisfactory as to their 

 original use, and they can no longer be considered otherwise 

 than as ancient catacombs, erected by a remote people." * 



It is interesting to note that the Cromlechs in the Channel 

 Islands are evidently the same in kind, and were doubtless built 

 by the same race of people to whom the Hellstone and the other 

 Cromlechs of the county of Dorset are referred. 



If we go further south we find in Brittany a repetition of the 

 same kind of remains. Our engraving No. 2 is from a drawing 

 kindly made by Miss Colfox, and has been described as 

 follows : 



"This Cromlech consists of a large rough stone placed hori- 

 zontally on nine upright stones. It is from one of the fifty Isles 

 of the Morbihan Brittany, and others abound in the neighbour- 

 hood, several being still extant on this same little ' He aux 

 Moines,' where there is also a circle of stones of considerable 

 size. It is, like the Hellstone, placed on a high ridge commanding 

 a fine view of the sea." f 



The connection of our monument with the one figured from 

 the Morbihan seems certain, and no less so with the like 

 structures in the Channel Islands. 



These facts seem all the more probable from the following 

 remarks, also copied from Mr. Lukis's paper, before referred 

 to: 



" The grave, the churchyard, the dark cavern, and the lonoly 

 cairn, still in our day continue to fill the mind of the ignorant 

 with timid fears or apprehensions of evil. The 'heaped-up 

 * The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 1, p. 146, 1845. 



t Note by Mrs. Colfox, who so obligingly showed a fine collection of 

 drawings of these structures on the visit of the Club to Bridport. 



