` Megalithic Monuments of Brittany. 575 
ernment the adoption of similar measures for the protection of 
American Indian mounds and other ancient monuments against 
the destruction with which they are threatened. 
The French commission has published a list of the megalithic 
monuments of France. The total number was put down at about 
6,300; of these 1,600 (increased by later discoveries to nearly 
2,000), are in Brittany. 
They are thus classified and distributed : 
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Loire Inféridure... | 50 57 1 D lo 6 10 
Morbihan............ 305 295 8 19 1 37 5 14 
Finistère 170 | 222 9 E Vo 1 3 5 
Cotes du Nord... | 112 | 138 l... 9 13 2 
Ille et Vilaine...... 15 32 5 Bae BES Peeks. 1 
652 | 739 23 42 1 45 22 32 
This table would misrepresent the work of the prehistoric men of 
this country unless explained. While a dolmen and a cromlech 
Count as separate monuments, each may require from ten to fifty 
Immense stones, and each of these may be a monument in itself. 
So also with a menhir and an alignment—an alignment consists of 
Many menhirs, 
I will only attempt to describe the general types of megalithic 
Monuments, though it would be necessary to exceed this to convey 
an adequate idea of the extent and grandeur of the monuments as 
a whole, 
The dolmen was made in the form of a chamber or series of 
Communicating chambers or alley-ways with sides, floor, and covers, 
