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at the other end of the group, at a distance of 3,076 feet 
from the village of Menec. In the course of your march, 
two or three facts present themselves to your notice. You 
perceive that the bulk and height of the menhirs diminish 
gradually {i.e., from about nine feet down to three feet), and 
that the widths of the avenues also diminish; and that as 
you gain the further extremity of the lines the stones 
increase somewhat in dimensions, not, however, rivalling in 
grandeur those near the circle which you have left behind 
you. You notice another fact, that the eastern extremity, 
which may be said to be the commencement of the avenues, 
is on a comparatively low level, that the ground gradually 
rises westwards over an undulating country, and that the 
heads of the lines and the circle are on a more elevated 
plateau. These are features generally noticeable in the other 
groups of avenues. 
Continuing your course eastwards, you traverse a space of 
1,669 feet, and ascend to a plateau, on which you find the 
western extremity of another group of avenues, consisting of 
ten lines, commonly known as the menhirs of Kermario, 
taking their name from a farm-house close by. These stones 
form the termination of a grand series of greater length than 
the one you have just quitted. The blocks of granite are of 
colossal proportions (about twelve feet in height), but there 
is no terminating circle now existing. If you follow these 
lines, you cross a hill by a windmill, descend into a small 
dell, through which a slender rill trickles, and then ascend 
another hill, on the slope of which the avenues lose them- 
selves at a distance of about 4,000 feet from the other 
extremity. Here the stones are generally of small dimen- 
sions, few exceeding three feet in height. As you emerge 
from a fir plantation, which clothes the eastern slope of this 
hill, you perceive, on the other side of a small valley and 
crowning the summit of the opposite hill, the standing stones 
