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Michigan Pictured Rocks
The Chapel—La Chapelle of the voyageurs if not the grandest, is among . the most grotesque, of Nature's architecture here displayed. Unlike the Excavations before described, which occur at the waters edge, this has been made in the rock at a height of thirty or forty feet above the lake. The interior con
sists of a vaulted apartment, which has not inaptly received the name it bears. An arched roof of sandstone, from ten to twenty feet in thickness, 22
rests on four gigantic columns of rocks, so as to leave a vaulted apartment of irregular shape, about forty feet in diameter, and about the same in height. The columns consist of finely stratified rock, and have been worn into curious shapes. At the base of one of them an arched cavity or niche has been cut, to which access is had by a flight of steps formed by the projecting strata. The disposition of the whole is such as to resemble very much the pulpit of a church; since there is overhead an arched canopy, and in front an opening out toward the vaulted interior of the Chapel,
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