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reached by a flight of steps formed of the retreating layers 

 of the sandstone. This is the pulpit. In front lies a tabu 

 lar mass of rock which answers for the desk, while an iso 

 lated block on the right represents an altar. &quot; If the whole 

 had been adapted expressly for a place of worship, and 

 fashioned by the hand of man, it could hardly have been 

 arranged more appropriately. It is hardly possible to de 

 scribe the singular and unique effect of this extraordinary 

 structure. It is truly a temple of Nature a house not 

 made with hands. : 



Hard by this chapel, erected by the hand of Nature to 

 symbolize the devotion which Nature s solitudes inspire, is 

 one of Nature s preachers a beautiful cascade lifting up 

 its voice perpetually in hearing of the spirits of the prime 

 val wilderness in the rear, 



Fig. 37. Chapel Falls &quot;Pictured Kocks.&quot; 



