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 o20 CiAn.l>lI FORTRESSES ON THE COAST OF I'.RITTANY, W. 0. Stanley in firculir ilvc'llina;s near Ilolvlioad, an«l described in the Journal of the Institute and in the Archieo- logi'i Canibrensis.^ I have niysell" mentioned in the hitter pubhcation some that have been found in Brittany ,■* under menhirs and dohncns, and in the subterranean gallery of La TourcUo, near Quimper. bJince the publication of that account M. Grenot has discovered four more of the same kind in a covered alley near the village of Gouesnac'h, about ten miles from Quimper. These kinds of mills are still in use in parts of Asia, Africa, and America, and have been accurately described by ])r. Livingstone in the account of liis travels, lie states that, in South Africa, " they use a block of granite, syenite, or even schist, from IG in. to 18 in. square by Sin. or G in. thick, Mhile the muller is a piece of some similar hard rock about the size of an ordinary brick, and convex so as to fit the hollow of the under stone. The woman irrinds, kneeling, and with her two hands moves the convex stone, nnich as a baker docs his dough, backwards and forwards. From time to time she adds a little grain, which, when crushed, falls on a mat placed there for the purpose."^ In the specimens I have seen, the surface use<l in this rubbing and crushing the grain is hxMjuently regularly worn away, through its whole extent sometimes. In some specimens it is hollowed out in the centre and furnished at the to}) and sides with a rude moulding of greater or less projection. The museum at Vannes contains one or two of these millstones which have been found in dolmens. When the mill has long been in use, this surface becomes worn away, anil the extremity by which tlio meal or Hour escaped is Canib., thinl HMj4e>l in the Like of N en fch.itel (Moi- Kmidl apeitnre madi- foi th.it jiurpose. tillet, " Mal<5riaux p<inr riliHtoire de 'J lie nual in ran^Iit on Horn*' material rilomme, iii. p.'J'JH); in the K^ottoeH of iilaced for that i)nri)oHO. When the triho lioiitity niaule l-oiie), ami of Sacarry, l» on itK Imvi-Im, the wr)nian rarrie« tho near Taiancoh (i/"f/., ii. p. S90; iii. p. '.^r.i); mill on her MhonldcrH. M. Olivier, of in tho Cave of ISiMleillac (AriJ^'go), col- (^nimper, formerly a Mnlxiflicer of SpahiH Ivction of M. lo Comto tie Liniur at in AlKeria, in my anthority for this Vanno', . SCi. wlm inc tin- duty nf pu'|>iiriiiK the fonil
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