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Fig. 3. Panorama of the Alignment of Menec, near Carnac, from the westerly 

 end. The cromlech is just behind the position of the camera, but could not be 

 included in the view on account of a house and farm buildings. The alignment of 



western ends with a cromlech, and LeEouzic is confident that there 

 was originally a cromlech at the western end of Kermario, but that it 

 has disappeared. 



The alignment of Menec may be taken as typical. It lies in an 

 undulating pasture, with farm buildings here and there, and is crossed 

 at about the middle by a country road. Through this field, from the 

 slight elevation at the west, down through the hollow of the road, and 

 disappearing over the rise at the east, stretch eleven rows of menhirs, 

 the rows being approximately parallel and about thirty feet apart, and 

 the whole a little over three hundred feet wide while in length they ex- 

 tend 3,800 feet, or over two thirds of a mile. Some of the menhirs have 

 tumbled down; here and there we note one built into the walls sepa- 

 rating the fields but still occupying its original position. In all there 

 are 1,099 stones still standing in Menec. At the eastern end they are 

 small, rising but two or three feet above the soil, but at the western end 

 are the giants, three or four feet in diameter and thirteen feet high. 



The cromlech of Menec consists of 70 stones, about five feet high on 

 the average, which sweep in a semicircle around the farm buildings at 

 the west end of the alignment, the chord of the curve including only 

 the southern half of the lines proper. 



Only dry facts need be given concerning the other alignments we 

 saw. In Kermario there are 982 menhirs in ten rows, extending over 



