Basalt mass of prismatic columns on a plain of sand, Reunion Island. Bastion basaltique de la plaine des Sables, dans l'ile de Bourbon. After a design in Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent's Voyage dans les quatre principales iles des mers d'Afrique, 1804. Copperplate engraving by Giuseppe Dall'Acqua 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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