400 
men; nor could I learn to what length the 
diggings had been carried. 
That very remarkable ftone continued 
to be an object of fuperftitious veneration 
among the inhabitants of the country 
round, till about one hundred and fixty 
years ago, when fome worthy paftor of 
the parifh caufed a ftone-crois to be in- 
ferted in the fummit, and by that means 
provided an innocent fa/wo for the honett 
devotees. The field in which it ftands is 
called in French Le Champ Dolent, cor- 
rupted from the Celtic terms Do Lan, of 
the temple ; /az being a component part 
of many names of places in Brétagne ; 
and at Rennes, and fome other towns, are 
{pots ftill called Champ Dolent, probably 
from the fame cireumftance. 
It is to be obferved, that near the ftone 
of Do/ there are none to be found larger 
perhaps than one’s hand; and that the 
neareft recks whence fuch a prodigious 
block could pofiibly have been procured, 
lie on the fea-fhore at leaft nine or ten 
‘miles off, in the bay of Cancalle. 
Now, Mr. Editor, before I conclude, 
it feems to be incumbent on me to ac- 
count in fome meafure for the difference 
between the defcription I have attempted 
to give of the Camp de Carnac, and that 
furnifhed to the public by the Traveller 
in Brétagne, as it is quoted in page 52 of 
our Magazine for February 1801, and 
alluded to by the very acute and indefa- 
tigable Mr. Pinkerton, in page 252 of his 
Medern Geography. In the firtt place, 
then, I muit fay that my notes were writ- 
ten out a few days after I had been at 
Carnac, and that foon afterwards I had 
an opportunity of correcting them by an 
account of the fame curious piece of an- 
tiquity, given in a work of a learned and 
ingenious French officer, entitled Recueil 
d° Antiquités dans les Gaules, pour fervir de 
fuite aux Ouvrages de M. le Comte de 
Caylus, publifhed at Paris in 1770, in 1 
vol. gto. by M. de la Sauvagiére ; fo 
that I am not much difpofed to abandon 
my own remarks for thole of a traveller, 
who evidently contradiéts himfelf in the 
courfe of a few lines: for the meafure- 
ments 1 made, as before ftated, thow that 
the rows of ftones were not equidiftant, 
and the obferver on the foots fees im- 
mediately that they are neither ftridtly 
parallel, nor in ftraight lines ; nor are the 
ftones at equal diftances, one from the 
other, in the rows: how then ean they 
form a quincunx ?—Again, he fays (which 
indeed would be moft fagular, if there 
could be any degrees in /igularity) that 
almoft all the ftenes, or, as he ftyles 
Account of the Antiquities of Carnac. 
[Dec, 1, 
them, the columns of the colonnade, are 
fomewhat conical in form, and are fixed 
with the point downward, fo as to give 
the appearance of a vaft block of ftone 
refting on a pivot. That there are fome 
of the ftones in that inverted pofition, is 
extremely probable, although I was not 
ftruck with the eircumftance ; but that 
they are almoft all fo, or even generally, 
or in any noticeable number, I really can- 
notadmit. Such an inverfion would have 
indicated another in the brains of the 
erectors, {till more unaccountable than 
the monument itfelf. | 
With refpect to the number of ftones, 
four thoufand, I certainly did not count 
them, but muft confider it as too {mall to 
fill eleven rows of two Englifh miles in 
length, (inftead of one thoufand toifes, or 
five quarters of a mile, as the Traveller 
has it,) at intervals of from twelve to 
twenty feet. 
Of the monument mentioned by Mr, 
Britton, as being in the parifh of Duteil, 
four leagues from Rennes, it was not my 
fortune to hear ; but in the above year, 
1787, on my way from Southampton to 
St. Malo, I had full opportunity to. exa- 
mine the very curious Druidical temple, 
difcovered fome time before, on the little 
hill that overhangs St. Helier, the capital 
of Jerfey, as well as feveral other crom- 
léhs, ftanding-ftones, cairns, &c. which 
that charming ifland contains. 
The whole of the temple was after- 
wards removed with great care, by the- 
directions of the late worthy Governor, 
General Conway, and is now to be feen 
(erected precifely as it was obferved when 
the covering of earth was taken away at 
St. Helier,) at his villa, Park-place, now 
the feat of Lord Malmefbury, near Hen- 
ley-upon-Thames ; and plans and views 
of the whole monument are to be found 
in the Archaeologica of the Antiquities of 
London. 
Iam, Sir, yours, &c. 
MONANDER. 
Londen, 20th OG. 1802. 
N. B. The derivations are taken from Bul-_ 
let’s Great Celtic and French Dictionary. 
ea 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiR, 
HE inguiry, which appeared in a 
1 late number of your Mifcellany, re- 
fpeCting the ufeful infitution at Clofter- 
hayn, near Frankenberg, demanded an 
earlier anfwer. I fhould have communi- 
cated to you, long before this, the obfer- 
vations I was enabled to make during a 
I fhort 
