Geologists with an umbrella at the Bridge at the Jaws of Hell near Thueyts in the Vivarais. The bridge is built on basalt prisms on the left and hard granite on the right. A giant waterfall gushes below the bridge. Pont de la Gueule d'Enfer 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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