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Moreover, an added interest are the traces of Roman occupation 
on the south side near the western end,—in fact, traces of the 
civilization of Rome of the period of the Gallic wars are scattered 
over Morbihan; and the peasants call the alignments Czsar’s 
Camp. Indeed their explanation of these lines is that their 
patron Saint Corneille was pursued by the Roman army, which 
was, as a punishment, turned to stone, the taller pillars represent- 
ing the officers. 
After crossing another interval we reach the eastern end of the 
alignment of Ménec, whose cromlech, at its western end, incloses 
some of the farmhouses of the hamlet of Ménec, which is not far 
from Carnac. The menhirs lie to the north of the road between 
Carnac and Plouharnel. The group is a little shorter than that of 
Kermario, being 3,376 feet long, and consists of eleven instead 
of ten lines, and the stones are not quite so high and imposing as 
those of the middle group. The stones or pillars vary much in 
shape; some are much rounded; many were, however, planted 
with the smaller end down; and whether it is a mere coincidence 
or not the highest stone is about eleven feet high, the number of 
rows is eleven, the alignments themselves are about eleven yards 
apart, while the spaces between the stones composing each line 
are often ten or eleven feet apart. In this, as in the other groups 
of alignments, the rows are not mathematically straight, but more 
or less wavy, and the stones vary much in distance apart, all the 
way from perhaps three or four to ten or eleven feet. In general — 
the stones decrease in height toward the end, where they are not 
much over four or five feet high. The groups follow the natural 
inequalities of the plain, whose surface is rolling, the country 
slightly descending from Ménec to Kerlescan. | 
The semi-circle of stone or cromlech at the western end of the 
Ménec group was inclosed by standing stones from about five to 
six and even eight feet high, which touched each other. At 
present many are prostrate, and there are two or three small stone 
farmhouses within the circle. Fortunately the government pur- 
chased the entire group in 1888, and will raise and plant the fallen 
stones; and as the inhabitants of the houses die or remove, the 
buildings will be taken down. The restoration of the Kermario 



