Rock-temples.

Rock-temples. In many parts of Western India, as at Ellora, Elephanta, Karli, and Salsette Island, natural rocks have been cut into temples; as also into caves and forts (see the articles mentioned). Out of India well-known instances of the same kind occur at Petra (q.v.) in the Arabian Desert, at Abu-Simbel (q.v.) in Egypt, and in China and Siam. There are remarkable cave-temples in the United States, one in Missouri, between the Salt River and Otter Creek, and another near Manchester in Ohio. The rock-dwellings of Colorado, &c., are described at CAVE. See James Fergusson, Rock-cut Temples of India (1864), with seventy-four photographs by Major Gill.