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Rh had come down, seemed to indicate a considerable amount of emergence in the wave-path, from the eastward, but how much, neither it, nor the direction of the fissures, in the coarse rubble, and through the heads of the windows, would indicate.

Monte Carpineto is part of a subordinate range, that stretches in a N. E. and S. W. direction, as far as Salvitella, northwards, almost at right angles to the great north scarp of Monte Alburno; the Tanagro piercing through it nearly at right angles, about half way between Petina, on the south, and Salvitella; and the much larger stream which comes away from far north of Muro and Bella, in the lofty recesses of Monte Croce, and joins into the Tanagro at Castelluccio, and properly should be called Tanagro, taking the name of the Bianco. The descent is extremely rapid from about the 59th milestone, or half a mile beyond; and as the new valley begins to open, I catch the first glimpses of Auletta, and even at this distance perceive the terrible evidences of the overthrow it has sustained.

Monte Carpineto once passed, the general direction of the main valley changes, and I descend into a deep and nearly