In this stone, caves are continually forming, from the action of the atmosphere; one of these is quite deep, and a rocky fragment left at its mouth, wreathed with little creeping plants, looks, as you sit within, like a ruined pillar.
The arched rock surprised me, much as I had heard of it, from, the perfection of the arch.

It is perfect, whether you look up through it from the lake, or down through it to the transparent waters.

We both ascended and descended--no very easy matter--the steep and crumbling path, and rested at the summit, beneath the trees, and at the foot, upon the cool, mossy stones beside the lapsing wave.

Nature has carefully decorated all this architecture with shrubs that take root within the crevices, and small creeping vines.

These natural ruins may vie for beautiful effect with the remains of European grandeur, and have, beside, a charm as of a playful mood in Nature.
The sugar-loaf rock is a fragment in the same kind as the pine rock we saw in Illinois.