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by tracking out and believing wbat they say. I think I 
have, to-day at least, proved my point beyond all dispute, by 
evidence of every kind that could be brought to bear upon 
the subject. Each account we look into dovetails easily, 
and of course into its proper place : history— -ancient and 
modern, nomenclature and topography, tradition and measure- 
ments of distance, French authors and Danish chronicle 
writers, the Sagas of the Norsemen, taken in their literal 
and honest meaning ; and, not least, the utter bewilderment of 
those who take the contrary view. One and all lead to but 
* one conclusion. — ( Freeman's Norman Conquest, vol. iii., 
p. 354, note ; 720, 723, 724.) 
If I have “ the audacity/’ or, as I call it, the manliness, 
to broach a new heresy, I am ever ready to back it up 
and do battle to the death for what I believe to be truth — - 
not romance, but history; and trust that what was said 
of me by one of my reviewers, in sarcasm, you who know the 
localities will allow not to be far from true in fact, “that 
there is nothing Mr. Surtees has a mind to prove that he 
cannot find arguments to support.” 
ON THE STONE AVENUES OF CARNAC, AND OTHER PRE-HIS- 
TORIC MONUMENTS OF BRITTANY. BY REV. W. C. LUKIS, 
M.A., F.S.A, HON. MEMBER OF THE SOCIETE POLYMATHIQUE 
DU MORBIHAN, AND OF THE SOCIETE ARCHEOLOGIQUE DE 
NANTES, LOIRE INFERIEURE. 
The monuments described in this article belong to that 
section of the pre-historic age which has been designated the 
period of polished stone implements. Formerly they were 
supposed to be among the most ancient structures that told 
of the earliest inhabitants of this globe. But archseological 
researches have now shown that there was a more remote 
period of human history, in which man did not erect such 
