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water which bathes the foundations, and resounds through 

 the vaulted passages of this most magnificent of Nature's 

 cromlechs. 



The last and most grotesque of these mural structures is 

 " The Chapel." At the height of forty feet above the lake 



Fig. 36. The Chapel— "Pictured Rocks." 



is a rocky floor, from the four angles of which rise curiously 

 wrought columns of masonry in thin and regular courses. 

 These support a massive vaulted roof that covers a rustic 

 auditorium forty feet in diameter and forty feet high, which 

 suggested the name of the structure. At the base of one 

 of the columns is excavated an arched niche, which may be 



