Geologist and artist studying the hexagonal basalt prisms near the ruined abandoned district of Ferento, Viterbo, central Italy. Basaltes prismatiques de Ferento: territoire de Viterbe. Copperplate engraving 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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