Image: Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px

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Description: Rough image of the lithograph of the "ruby amphitheater" described in The Sun (New York City) newspaper (August 28, 1835): Our plain was of course immediately covered with the ruby front of this mighty amphitheater, its tall figures, leaping cascades, and rugged caverns. As its almost interminable sweep was measured off on the canvass, we frequently saw long lines of some yellow metal hanging from the crevices of the horizontal strata in will net-work, or straight pendant branches. We of course concluded that this was virgin gold, and we had no assay-master to prove to the contrary.
Title: Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px
Credit: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/images/moonprint2.jpg Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
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