At Length My Guide Prepared Me For One Of The Finest Sights
We Had Yet Seen, Which We Should Now Soon Behold.
And we had hardly gone on a few paces, when we entered what might
easily have been taken for a majestic temple, with lofty arches,
supported by beautiful pillars, formed by the plastic hand of some
ingenious artist.
This subterranean temple, in the structure of which no human hand
had borne a part, appeared to me at that moment to surpass all the
most stupendous buildings in the world, in point of regularity,
magnificence, and beauty.
Full of admiration and reverence, here, even in the inmost recesses
of nature, I saw the majesty of the Creator displayed; and before I
quitted this temple, here, in this solemn silence and holy gloom, I
thought it would be a becoming act of true religion to adore, as I
cordially did, the God of nature.
We now drew near the end of our journey. Our faithful companion,
the water, guided us through the remainder of the cavern, where the
rock is arched for the last time, and then sinks till it touches the
water, which here forms a semicircle, and thus the cavern closes, so
that no mortal can go one step farther.
My guide here again jumped into the water, swam a little way under
the rock, and then came back quite wet, to show me that it was
impossible to go any further, unless this rock could be blown up
with powder, and a second cavern opened.
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