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Specimens of Carnelians, spar, and wood coal collected from the Basaltic columns, in Ireland

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

October 27, 1821

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 116

Additional Source Text:

The donor was "of Chilico[th]e Ohio."

Notes:

This donation may have come from the Giant's Causeway, an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.