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132 formations around, it is probable that a careful examination would detect numbers of other examples of such slippages; upon all which, the case of the Locanda di Gravina of yesterday, was an instructive commentary.

All that is seen in the engravings Nos. 18, 20, 27, 29, 30, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 45, and 49, of the 'Istoria di Fenomeni del Tremoto nelle Calabrie, nell' anno 1783, dalla Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Napoli, fol. 1784, Naples,' allowing for the barbarous drawings, and gross exaggeration of parts, and still more barbarous engraving, is perfectly and easily accounted for by the phenomena disclosed, by these various fissures and landslips, whether superficially dry or ponding water, whether running, or stagnant and lodged beneath the surface.