Geologists viewing the reef in front of Fingal's Cave, Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The isle of Boo-sha-la has horizontal bundles as well as vertical columns of prismatic basalt. Ile de Boo-Sha-La pres de l'ile de Staffa. 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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