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372 base of the fountain, "made a cannon" over to B$5$, where it remains.

In the north-west corner of this square, beneath the arcades of the west side, a statue of the Madonna, standing in a niche, has been twisted on its base, and shifted in a final direction, 115° E of north, as seen in Photog. No. 228 (Coll. Roy. Soc.), and Fig. 3, Diagram No. 240.

Very near the Campanile, but far below its summit level, upon the east gable of the front range of buildings, at F (Fig. 1, Diagram No. 238, and Fig. 4, Diagram No. 240), are two remarkable chimney stalks, one of which has been twisted upon its base, at a horizontal fracture close to the level of the gable, the other standing uninjured.

To the eastward of the front square, the roofs of the church, and of the grand refectory, groined and arched buildings of great magnitude, have been heavily fissured. In the refectory both end gables, (Fig. 239,) run up originally against the ends of the brick vault, have parted off from it, and



present east and west fissures open 3 inches at top on the north, and $1 3⁄4$ inch at the south end, while longitudinal fissures of half an inch to one inch wide run north and south along the soffit. The roof of the church is still more dislocated; both roofs are brick vaults. At the upper end of the refectory the great fresco by Elia, of the Marriage of Cana, is fissured