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ated onthe weft fide of‘ the entrance to the 
Morbihan,* or Bay of Vannes, are two bar- 
rows of great fize, compofed, at leaft ex- 
ternally,, and even a good way in, of 
{mall fiones, and of an oblong fhape, like 
thofe near Carnac, and indeed like all that 
T ever faw in Brétagne. One of them, it 
ts faid, contains about 4000 cubic toiles ; 
that is, would be equal to a regular pa- 
rallelopiped of 150 feet in length by 75 
feet in height, and as much in breadth. 
But it is quite evident that both barrows 
are much diminifhed by the continual car- 
rying away of their materials for various 
purpofes. ‘ 
Again, of antient monuments refem- 
bling what is vulgarly called Kits-coity- 
houfe,+ in Kent, the following is an ex- 
ample. About twenty-two miles weft 
from Vannes, and three eat from Henne- 
bon, on the road to Port L’Orient, on 
the fouth fide, is a groupe of large rough 
ftones, confifting of four placed upright 
on their edges, of which two form the 
back, and the other two the fides of the 
cell, or recefs, (for I am at a lofs fora 
proper name for it,) with a fifth large 
one refting on thefe four, as a roof or co- 
ver. The open fide looks towards the 
eaft. Belides that antique, there are ma- 
ny other ftones now lying in confufion on 
the ground, which feem to have been ori- 
ginally arranged in the fame manner. 
Of cromléhs, as they are called in Bri- 
tain, 1 will notice but one. At Locma- 
riaker, already mentioned, is an oblong 
fione, called in French La Table, (for its 
Bréton name 1 have loft,) whofe fides are 
19 feet 3 inches, 11 feet, 16 feet 6 inches, 
and 12 feet 4 inches: the thicknefs in 
general about 3 feet: the under furface 
very rough and uneven, but the upper 
much more {mooth, and ona plane nearly 
horizontal. ‘This table refts at prefent on 
three fmall rough ftones, one at the nar- 
roweft end, and the two others on the 
fides ; befides which there are under the 
table three other {mall ftones, but not 
Virgin Mary, and ker, a city: i, e. the 
church of the Virgin in the city. 
— ® The Bay of Vannes is called in Bréton, 
Morbihan, from mor, the fea, and bihan, lit- 
tle ; a name extremely applicable to it; for 
that /ittle fea contains ia parvo iflands, road- 
fteads, creeks, harbours, sivers, fea-ports, 
falt-marfhes, “and many other circumftances 
that go to compofe the great ocean. 
+ See the account of the monument at 
St. Helier in Jerfey, which confitts of a num- 
ber of fuch groupes, having a covered paf- 
fage, pointing to the eaft, like that belong= 
ing to the great table at Locmariaker, 
MontTuLy Mac, No, 94, 
Account of the Antiquities of Carnac. 
599 
now ftanding fo high as to be in contaét 
with it. 
The (mall ftones are continued beyond 
the broad end of the table, in two rows, in 
the direétion of thofe under it, cf four 
ftones on one fide, and two on the other 5 
which arécroffed by tum long rude blocks, 
forming a fort of covered way or paffige, 
‘pointing to the fouthward of eaft: but 
the rubbifh with which that end is incum- 
bered, prevents its extent from being exe 
actly a{certained. 
OF fngle ftones, fo common al] over Bré- 
tagne, wvermit me, Sir, to mention thefe 
two, as the moft remarkable that I faw. 
At Locmariaker, between the two great 
barrows, are many large ftones on the 
groun’ ; but one is of prodigious magni- 
tude, broken into four pieces, perhaps by 
its fall from an erect pofition, and now a 
little {unk into the earth. The length of 
the firft piece, counting from the broad 
end, on which it had ftood, is 24. feet g 
inches, of the fecond 14 feet 5 inciies, of 
the third 8 feet 3 inches, and of the fourth 
6 feet 10 inches, in all near 55 feet. As 
the ftone is a fort of rhombus, 1 meafured 
the diagonals of the fection of the largcft 
end, and found them to be about 12 feer 
4 inches by 6 feet 6 inches. Although 
the largeft piecelies five or ix feet from 
the next in order, yet the other fragments 
are feparated one from the other by only a 
few inches ; and the fractures correfpond 
fo well to each other, that therecan be no, 
doubt but that the whole originally form- 
ed one entire ftone. How much, or if 
any portion of it yet remains under ground, 
is to me unknown. 
The other remarkable ftone I have to 
mention, is ftill entire and quite erect: it 
fands ina field a fhort mile fouth from 
Dol, a city in Brétagne, about twelve miles 
fouth-eaft from St. Malo, and twenty- 
eight north from Rennes. 
That ftone is, as nearly.as I could cal- 
culate, twenty-eight or thirty feet high 
above the furface, and about as much in 
circumference at the ground. It confifts 
of four fides, nearly equal, and tapers 
away sradually to the top. 
The regularity of its form is fuch, as 
almoft to induce a belief of its having 
been dreffed by art into its prefent fhape ; 
and that the fharp corners, and the afperi- 
ties of its furface, had been rounded and 
worn away by the patient but unremitting 
hand of Time. 
I was told that various attempts had 
been made, by digsing, to arrive at itg 
lower end, but ali without fuccefs, pros 
bably from fear of its failing On the work- 
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