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Michigan Pictured Rocks
The vast dimensions of the cavern, the vaulted passages, the varied effects of the light as it streams through the great arch and falls on the different objects, the deep emerald green of the water, the unvarying swell of the lake keeping up a • succession of musical echoes, the reverberations of one's own voice coming back with startling effect, all these must be seen, and heard, and felt, to be fully appreciated.
"Beyond the Grand Portal the cliffs gradually diminish in height, and the general trend of the coast is more to the southeast; hence the rock, being less exposed to the force of the waves, bears fewer marks of their destructive action. The entrance to Chapel River is at the most easterly extremity of a sandy beach which extends for a quarter of a mile, and affords a convenient landing place, while the drift-terrace, elevated about thirty feet above the lake level, being an open pine plain, affords excellent camping ground, and is the most central and convenient spot for the traveler to pitch his tent while he examines the most interesting localities in the series which occur in this vicinity— to wit, the Grand Portal and the Chapel.
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