The passage through which we were moving was such a fissure, through which at one time granite poured out in a molten state. Its thousands of windings formed an inextricable labyrinth through the primeval mass.
Le couloir actuel était une fissure de ce genre, par laquelle s'épanchait autrefois le granit éruptif; ses mille détours formaient un inextricable labyrinthe à travers le sol primordial.