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The stones of the circles nearly touch each other, whereas 
those of the lines have spaces of from seven to twenty feet 
between them. 
The average distance beween the lines at the west end is 
thirty feet ; at the east end, eighteen feet. 
It appears probable that the number of the lines in each 
series was determined at first, and the whole number begun 
at once. The size of the stones indicates this. 
We may presume that they were begun at the west end, 
and probably in all cases the circles were added last, at least 
after the wider or west portion of the series had been erected, 
because at St. Pierre, Quiberon, the circle is seventy-seven 
yards on the south side of the lines ; at Menec the centre of 
the circle is south of the direction of the central avenue ; 
and at Kerlescant it is a large segment, and not a complete 
circle. In no case is there, strictly speaking, an attachment 
of the circle to the lines. 
Now just as the same facts often produce opposite impres- 
sions on different minds, so is it with regard to these monu- 
ments. Archseologists and travellers appear to have viewed 
them through different coloured glasses, and have drawn 
strange and opposite conclusions from what they have seen. 
It is very difficult to banish from the mind pre- conceived and 
favourite ideas, and the glasses they have used have thrown 
such an agreeable colouring around the objects, that the 
opinions are adhered to in spite of their fancifulness and 
palpable falseness. 
The peasant population, for many generations, have been 
looking at these lines through a highly- coloured glass ; and 
if you ask them how these stones came to be thus arranged, 
they will tell you without hesitation, and expect you to 
believe, that these ponderous masses are the Pope’s soldiers. 
They say that St. Comely, Pope, and now patron saint of the 
parish church of Carnac, chased by an army of pagans, fled 
