La Motte mountain, near Catania, Sicily. Composed of a mass of prismatic columns of lava from the volcano Mount Etna. Montagne de la Motte, pres de Gatane. Copperplate engraving by Giuseppe Dall'Acqua after Bombara 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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