Basalt causeway at Beaume bridge on the Ardeche river, Vivarais range, France. Colonnade of high prisms over a volcanic grotto. After a design by Arnault Eloi Gautier D’Agoty in Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's Recheches sur les volcans, 1778. Chaussee basaltique du pont de la Beaume au bord de la riviere l'Ardeche dans le Vivarais. Copperplate engraving by Milanese painter Gaetano Riboldi 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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