Misc. CXXVIU. Vol. VI, No. 90. 



CELTICK MONUMENTS OF C ARN AC. 



In the western parts of France, near the 

 castle of Carnac, in the department of Mor- 

 hihan, along the sea -shore, in a mournful 

 desert of downs., there are found the follo- 

 wing remarkable monuments of antiquity, 

 deriving from the Celts, who anciently inha- 

 bited that part of Gallia. In those sandy 

 plains, wholly destitute of rocks, the 

 traveller meets with rough, blocks of stone, 

 which, being supported only by their own 

 weight without a basis, are supposed to have 



been erected by human efforts in a very bold 

 manner. The number of these blocks of 

 stone, which arise perpendicularly, still 

 amounts to 4000, the use of which proves 

 difficult to be explained, though, most pro- 

 pably, they refer to the religious customs 

 of that ancient people. The groupes of sto- 

 ne which we see (Fig. II.) seem to be still 

 more nearly related to certain sciences, 

 containing perhaps observations on the star- 

 ry sky. 



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