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Rh as the hands of a watch move. Some of its smaller are thrown down.

In the entrance square, within the walls, as seen in Photog. No. 226 (Coll. Roy. Soc.), looking south from the steps S (Diagram No. 240, Fig. 1), the whole of the square pyramidal chimney caps upon the east side building, from B to B, are thrown down, and on to the roof tiling; and several of the balustrades and finials over the mural fountain, in in the centre of the length of this side, are twisted also.

The great axial line of the whole mass of buildings is north 5° W.

The chimney caps B B, 13 in number, are thrown to various horizontal distances, varying between 3 and 5 feet, on to the tiling, as in Fig. 2 (Diagram No. 240), but all with a very nearly uniform direction of 136° E of north. None of the chimney shafts, which stand about 5 feet above the roof, have been overthrown, though some have been shattered at top by the chucking off of the caps, which, like the shafts, are of brick set in mortar.

Entering the front court or square, the campanile is over the south-east corner, as seen in Photogs. No. 227 and 227 bis (Coll. Roy. Soc.), and from the summit, two large balls, of stone, A and B, have fallen, one of which, with its pedestal A, remains buried amidst the broken parts of the roof upon which it descended, while the other, B, failing without its pedestal (which still is in situ), upon a more solid part of the roofing, rolled down over the eave, and described a trajectory from B to B$2$. (Figs. 1 and 2, Diagram No. 238), down into the marble-paved court, breaking the nosing of the step at B$3$, rolling thence across to B$4$, and striking the