Basalt columns near Meissner, Hesse, Germany. A geologist stands in the Cave of Owls at left. Kitzkammer or Kautzkammer am Meissner. Basaltes prismatiques de la caverne des Chouettes sur le Meisner. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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