Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Deeply Scored Boulder
Long parallel grooves and uneven shaded surfaces model a large irregular boulder. Donnelly includes the illustration among the physical features discussed in Ragnarok. The marked stone is part of the book’s account of drift and catastrophic forces. Its appearance can be examined without treating the author’s comet theory as the only explanation of the grooves.
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Illustrator not identified. "A Deeply Scored Boulder" [editorial title]. In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, Ignatius Donnelly. Eleventh edition, 1887, R. S. Peale and Company. Source scan leaf 18. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0043-0016
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Illustrator not identified. A Deeply Scored Boulder. Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. Scan leaf 18. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0043-0016