376 FRANCE. Chap. VIII.
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Number of Dolmens in Thirty-one Departments of France, according to M. Bertrand, 1864.[1]
Lot Finistère Morbihan Ardèche Aveyron Dordogne Vienne (Haute ct Basse) Côtes du Nord Maine-et-Loire Eure-et-Loir Gard Aube Indre-et-Loire Charente Creuse Charente-Inférieure Lozère Corrèze Vendée Loire-Inférieure Sarthe Ille-et-Vilaine Deux-Sèvres Orne Indre Manche Pyrénées-Orientales Puy-de-Dôme Oise Cantal Tarn-et-Garonne
Dolmens.
Terminations in ac.
500 71 500 3 250 26 155 16 125 35 100 75 82 41 56 8 53 . .. — 40 — 32 16 28 1 28 — 26 50 26 6 24 21 19 16 17 42 17 — 16 11 15 — 15 18 15 — 14 — 13 3 13 . .. — 12 2 10 3 9 — 8 37 7 16
1 The information in this table must be received with great limitation. In the first place, What is a dolmen? Do the alignments at Carnac count as two, as seven, or as 700? Many also are mere estimates of local antiquaries. It is, for instance, very doubtful if Finistère contains more monuments than the Morbihan; and subsequent information may introduce great modifications into many of the numbers.
The value of the ac distinction does not come out clearly: first, because of the imperfect mode in which it has been obtained, but more because it does not make it clear that there are in France twenty-nine departments in which there are no dolmens, and no ac-terminations; in fact, the negative evidence which does not appear here is stronger than the positive.
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