he place where the victims were bound. No celts or
other objects of antiquity were found in the grotto, which must have been
previously rifled of its contents. These sculptures cannot have been
executed without the use of metal instruments. There are also Celtic
remains in the Ile aux Moines and other islands of the Morbihan, but our
guide did not encourage us to extend our sail to visit them. The current
between the island and Port Navalo is sometimes of great rapidity and
violence.

Next day we went to Carnac to see its marvellous avenues of menhirs. The
Celtic remains here are of a different character from those of
Locmariaker. Here there is quantity, at Locmariaker size. The monuments of
the last are covered with strange characters and signs; in Carnac they are
all plain and silent, according to the laws of the Druids, who prohibited
writing, in the fear of thereby divulging their mysteries, and also that
the people might not neglect to cultivate their memories.

"Tout cela eut un sens, et traduisit
Une pensee; mais la cle de ce mystere,
Ou est elle? et qui pourrait dire aujourd'hui
Si jamais elle se retrouvera?"--CAYAT DELANDRE.

Before reaching Carnac, we stopped at Kermario on the left, and got out of
the carriage to inspect the army of large menhirs about the windmill. They
are arranged in eleven rows, some sixteen feet high, placed with the small
end in the ground. They are all of a sombre grey, many of them clothed
with straggling lichens of various species. This wild heathy tract was
covered with the blue flower of the dwarf gentian, and strewed all over
with menhirs. Before arriving at Carnac, the road passes the avenues of
Menec, all running in the same direction as those of Kermario, from east
to west: among these are some of the largest stones. The third large
group, at Erdeven, we saw on our way from Carnac back to Auray by another
road.

"D'un passe sans memoire incertaines reliques,
Mysteres d'un vieux monde en mysteres ecrits."
LAMARTINE.

We do not pretend to enter into the various explanations attempted of this
wonderful monument. The legend at Carnac is, that St. Cornely, pursued by
an army of pagans, fled towards the sea; finding no boat at hand, and on
the point of being taken, he transformed the soldiers into stones.

"Les soldats de deux rois idolatres
Poursuivaient notre saint deja l'ami des patres,
Et su