Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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tered. When we left Vannes we went by themost direct road to Auray, about a halfhours run, and there turned southwesttoward Carnac down by the coast which wereached about an hour after leavingVannes. We were eager to see the Druidi-cal monuments known as Menhirs andDolmens, the great stones of mythologicalage. These and the Giants Causeway,which we visited later in Ireland, are twoof the most wonderful things in the world—one created by man and the other acreation of Nature. The hotel manager at Vannes had given us a little map whichenabled us to go directly to the most inter-esting part of these enormous fields of rock,taking in Ploemel and Plouharnel on theway. Th story of these stones—as to whatthey , e; what kind of people put themthere; why and when they were put there;—has never been told and probably neverwill be. They are practically as prehis-toric as the formation of the world itself,and as we drove our motor, a symbol of thelatest creation of man, out on the moors 5i9
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An Intimate Excursion 521 among these tokens of the musty ages, afeeling unlike anything which we had everfelt before came over the entire party.Here was an illustration of the spanning oftime. Here on the very spot where thefirst known labor of man is exhibited stoodalso his last production—one the work of apeople unknown, the other the recent pro-duction of the most modern nation onearth. The pyramids of Egypt have a historywhich has been unraveled and written byarchaeologists. Pompeii is relatively mod-ern; the statues of Rameses and the art ofthe Nile are as open books compared withthe history of these great rocks. The Menhirs and Dolmens are scatteredall about the section south of Auray, butdown near Carnac there are three groupsset upon lines as straight as a modernengineer could draw them and forming nineor ten avenues. There are 874 in one ofthe rows, 855 in another and 262 in a third;it is said there were 15,000 originally. Thestones, which are equal distances apart,vary in

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