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SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



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. "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— "Pictured Rocks. 



