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Rh Eboli giving distinct indications. It is almost cardinal, and shows some pretty extensive sloping fissures in the walls of the apse, behind the altar, and in the N. wall of the nave, these being respectively nearly orthogonal. The apse fissures are comparatively insignificant, and from the form of the walls difficult to compare with those of the nave. The general deduction as to wave-path, however, coincides pretty nearly with that from the Locanda, being E. to W. and some degrees to the N. of W. The slope of the fissures in the N. wall of the nave gives for the angle of emergence $$e = 21^\circ 30'$$ from E.

The people generally at Eboli, and more particularly those of the family of the Padrone at the Locanda, state, that they experienced both shocks from E. to W., and that there was a considerable amount of vertical movement (sussultatorio).

A very intelligent man living at La Sala, but who was at Eboli on the night of the shock, whom I met at the Locanda (but whose name, I regret to find, I did not note), agreed with their notions, but thought he had also felt a sharp jerking shock from the N. or E. of N. directly after both the first and second principal shocks. If this be so, it would probably be accounted for, as a reflected wave from the high hills that overhang Eboli to the N. and N. E. No one heard any noise attending the earthquake.

The level of the ground on which the Locanda stands, as given by reduced barometer observation, is 326.8 feet above the sea. Barom. reads 29° 72', thermo. 50° Fah. at 9h 25m, Nap. m. t. (26th February).

At the Locanda of Eboli, I had the good luck to fall in with Signor Palmieri, the engineer of the corps of Ponti e Strade, to whom I had a letter from the Intendente R 2