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XIV. Account of a Visit to the Monument usually considered as Druidical, at Carnac in Brittany, made in the month of September 1825, by Alexander Logan, Esq.: Communicated by James Logan, Esq. F.S.A. Edinb. in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Alexander Logan Esq.
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I have taken the liberty of transmitting to your Lordship the accompanying Communication. It is an Extract from a Letter sent to me by my brother, who has been on a tour in France, and the account he gives of the astonishing monument at Carnac I have presumed may be interesting, the more especially as I believe there exists no accurate description of this wonderful structure. In the recent work of Mr. Higgins on “the Celtic Druids,” we have only M. Cambry's account of it, with copies of his illustrative plates, and these are shown by the present relation to contain several errors and exaggerations.

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Archaeologia , Volume 22 , 1829 , pp. 190 - 197
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1826

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page 192 note a Sauvagère says, they are eighteen, twenty, and twenty-five feet asunder.

page 194 note b It has been computed that the monument, as originally constructed, could not have consisted of fewer than 10,000 of these blocks, of different sizes. At Ardeven, Sauvagere says, 400 stones were still remaining, and estimates the whole number at 4,000. He published his “Dissertations Militaires” in 1758.

page 196 note c Is it not more probably the Gaëlic or Celtic charn, stony or rocky, and ack, field? This etymology is certainly descriptive of the place. James Logan.