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Rh inducement to remove the mountainous masses of rubble and rubbish, that must form the necessary preliminary. Those associated with the place will find another site, and rekindle their hearths on strange ground, from which their surviving successors, will within another century most probably be driven forth, by a future great earthquake, from houses as unskilfully constructed, as those their sires perished beneath.

As I looked back once more upon the place, I came to understand that thus it has been, that we find in Southern Italy, such numbers of old and new towns of the same name, situated not far apart—such as Corneto, Vecchia e Nova, Tito, Vecchio e Nova, Capaccio, Marsico, and numbers of others—and it recurred to memory that after the great shock of 1783, several of the Calabrian towns, were then rebuilt on new sites—as St. Agatha, Vecchia e Nova, Blanco, Vecchia e Nova, &c.

Sir Charles Lyell's vivid sketch, of the probability of future ages, finding in the formations of to-day, human remains and objects, and records of human art, ('Elements of Geology,' chap. xlvi.), embedded and preserved, too, suggested thoughts of the future state and after history, of the mounds that are alone left where Saponara was.

Beneath these masses lie, some few mangled human remains, that will never probably be found for sepulture—those of domestic animals, and of the mammalian and other vermin that follow man—fragments of every household utensil, personal and domestic ornaments, weapons, tools, and instruments, carved and wrought stone, ivory, hard wood, grain, fruits, food of many sorts, books, records, crumpled pictures, glass and pottery, wrought timber in the