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88 not to afford any indication, beyond the general confirmation, as to wave-path.

A large building, to the north side of the piazza in front of the Chiesa Madre, has its front wall which ranges exactly with the axial line of the church, bulged and thrown outwards towards the south. It is also fissured transversely, and is propped from the piazza, as are many of the larger buildings along the main street, which runs nearly north and south.

Two other smaller churches, both at the east side of the main street, have their axial lines quite parallel with that of the Chiesa Madre (110° E. of north). One of these, (Chiesa di San Benedetto,) is heavily fissured, transversely and longitudinally, and the west end wall has gone out. The brick groined arching of the roof, shows irregular fissures; the building is small, its indications not absolutely clear, but its main fissures indicate pretty distinctly, a wave-path 45° 30' E. of north from the S.W., and, an angle of emergence of from 15° to 18° from same direction, (see Diagram No. 320, Fig. 2, Coll. Roy. Soc).

Very near it is the Chiesetta of St. Johanes, a strange dark little vaulted "cella," tremendously fissured at the S.W. quoin, in the west wall over the door, and longitudinally along the crown of the vault. Both piers at the western quoins are of well-built limestone ashlar, in large blocks about 3 feet wide on the face and 18 feet in total height. The S.W. one, is thrown five inches out of plumb to the S.W. (see Diagram No. 320, Fig. 3, Coll. Roy. Soc). The arched roof is elliptical, of rubble ashlar limestone. The longitudinal fracture has let down the crown and forced out of plumb both the side walls.