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Rh in the bottom of the valley, conveyed the notion of a more confused sound, than that of those on the summits, in the two towns; as if echoes or secondary sounds from the precipitous sides of the hills around had in some way been heard more by the former than the latter, with the primary sounds.

Descending with Padre Maucini, from the town to the road at the valley bottom, which is perhaps 100 feet above the bed of the Tanagro close beneath, I examined the little Casa Commnnale, a nearly new building (about three years old) a parallelogram of two stories (Fig. 153), nearly



cardinal (axial line 10° W of N.), built of rubble, with cut stone jamb dressings, and middling quoin stones, and with a heavy external stone staircase on the west flank. It was fissured in several places, and the fractures gave a wave-path of 120° W. of N., and an emergence of about 65° with the horizon. The emergence might be steeper, however, the direction of the fissures in the front, had been coerced in some degree, by the large proportionate surface, of cut stone jamb dressings.