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Rh strong wind from the N. W. sprang up, and the remainder of the day's journey, and that of three succeeding ones, was made under torrents of unceasing rain, which swelled the mountain streams, and the great rivers besides, and rendered their passage occasionally perilous to the laden mules.

At Arena Bianca, from which the pass over the shoulder south of Monte della Vajana takes its name, though called indifferently that of "Ovedone," two houses are down, and numberless breaches are visible, by lengths of the drystone fence walls which abound here, (like those in the limestone country of the west of Ireland,) having been prostrated; almost all the walls down ran east and west; a few, however, had run north and south, and afforded evidence, that while the main wave-path was still nearly north to south, there was here, also a minor transverse shake.