Basalt prism columns at Bridon bridge, near Vals, in the Vivarais/Ardeche range. After a design by Veyrenc in Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's Recherches sur les volcans eteints, 1778. Pave des Geans du pont de Bridon pres de Vals 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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