native rock

When the burial-chamber was a grotto—that is to say, was wholly excavated from the native rock—a greater width could be obtained.

In its middle there arose a penthouse, low and irregularly shaped like some organic outcropping of native rock.

The garden rises at the end into broken elevated ground showing the native rock through its grassy sides.

This unfinished obelisk shows the mode in which the ancients separated these immense monoliths from the native rock.

When pure and uncut in its native rock, it presents the most lovely colours that can be seen in the world, except those of clouds.