Piles of hexagonal basaltic columns making up the Cyclopean Islands, Catania, Sicily. South of the volcano Mount Etna. Vue des iles des Cyclopes vis a vis de la Ville de Gatane. Copperplate engraving by from Scipion Breislak’s Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, Treatise on the Exterior Structure of the Globe, Jean-Pierre Giegler, Milan, 1822.

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