. Megalithic Monuments of Brittany. 585 
Dol, thirty-one ; Plouarzel, thirty-six and one-half; Plesidy, thirty- 
seven ; and Lochmariquer, sixty-seven and one-half. The latter, 
fallen and broken, is thirteen and one-half feet wide and seven 
Miri beér of Caclo 
FIG. 9 
and one-half feet thick and weighs 347 tons. There are 739 of 
these in Brittany. The menhir stands single and alone. When 
arranged in parallel lines as they sometimes are, they are called 
alignments, 
ALIGNMENTS. 
The Province of Brittany has twenty-three alignments—one-half 
of those in all France. The department of Morbihan and Finis- 
tère have, together, seventeen of these. Carnac has in its imme- 
diate neighborhood six out of these seventeen. These six align- 
ments represent 3,000 menhirs. 
: Menec, near Carnac, has 835 menhirs, arranged in eleven parallel 
lines, 3,778 feet in length and 328 feet in breadth at the head, 
