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including almost every known species, such as whitings, 

 haddocks, ray, soles, turbot, red mullet, rock cod, grey 

 mullet, &c., &c., the halves of many of which were eaten by 

 the crabs and lobsters, and the remaining portions sticking 

 in the net ; many of the latter were also captured. 



The same success attended us with every net we took up, 

 and although full one-half of our captives had been devoured 

 by the crabs and lobsters, we took fish enough back with us 

 to Quimper to fill a large market-cart, and these were caught 

 with scarcely any trouble or exertion. 



In no part of the world are there so many Druidical 

 monuments and remains as in the Morbihan and the country 

 between Quimper and Quimperle. Menhirs, cromlechs, 

 barrows, dolmens, &c., abound in every direction, and afford 

 a wide field for the speculations and investigations of the 

 antiquary. The celebrated monument of Carnac, where 

 eleven parallel lines, containing more than twelve hundred 

 separate stones, some of them of eighty thousand pounds 

 weight, is perhaps the most curious Druidical remnant in 

 existence. The barrenness of the soil, the wide extent of 

 lands and moor, and the thinness of the population, were 

 alike favourable to a religion, the rites of which were always 

 celebrated in the most solitary and inaccessible places. 



About the latter end of this year I bade adieu to Brittany, 

 not without many regrets and many souvenirs of the pleasant 

 days I had passed, both by flood and field (amongst which 

 my old friend the cure of Knockynolly held a prominent 

 place), during the twelve months of my residence at Quim- 

 perle. Since that period, the overwhelming and still 

 increasing family of the " Bulls," who will soon find the 

 whole of Europe too small to hold them, have discovered, 

 and consequently put an end to nearly all those facilities for 

 sport and economy, which I have attempted to describe in 

 this chapter. The rights of fishing and shooting are difficult 



