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, a place of nearly 5000 inhabitants, who are said to be descendants of Albanian colonists, and of much antiquity, (Photog. No. 329, Coll. Roy. Soc.,) lies upon a high offshoot of Vulture to the eastward; upon deep beds of yellow and grey hard tufa, with large masses of included hard and elastic lava visible in many places. Four of the large torrents from the flanks of the mountain, pass through and around the town, dividing, to a considerable depth, the blocks upon which it is built, and uniting to the east of it, in the little Vallo della Fica, fall into the Olivento, which joins the great stream of the Ofanto, about twelve miles to the N.E. The Pizzuto of Vulture, bears west of north, from the highest point of the town, and compared with Zannoni's map, confirms previous determinations of magnetic declination. The Syndico, Don Vincencio Piancentini, and two or three of the chief inhabitants, accompanied me over the town, which has suffered severely. It is diffusely and in many places severely fissured, and several buildings wholly prostrated. Two persons were killed by the fall of these.

A large building opposite the Casa Communale,