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FRANCE.
Chap. VIII.

at Mettray looks too like a finished monument for any one to fancy its builders wished it hid.

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125.
Dolmen near Mettray. From Gailhabaud.

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126.
Dolmen of Krukenho.

The more usual form of French dolmens is either square or slightly in excess of that form, seldom reaching two squares in plan, and with a height equal to its breadth. One of the finest specimens[1] of a monument of this class is in the middle of the


  1. The woodcut is from a publication privately printed by Dr. Blair and Mr. Ronalds.