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152 given here), a good deal more violently shaken, than those twenty miles to the south upon the tufa; but from Naples northward, there are unfortunately no actual traces of the shock, and I am thenceforth obliged therefore to resort merely to cross-examination, and testimony far from satisfactory.

At Sesse, they said, the shock had been sharp enough to awaken all the people, there and at Corbara, a little village opposite.

Sesse stands on the S.E. flank (perched on rock) of a very deep and abrupt cliff, that comes down for some miles in a N.N.E. direction, and through which the Rivo Travata comes down, to join the Garigliano.

Leaving Sesse, we come in upon another great basin plain, of volcanic filling, with the large stream of the Garigliano flowing through it, and lose sight of the limestone, until passing under Trajetto, and Castro Onorato, which appear by the telescope to be on limestone brows. In crossing this plain I lost all trace of the earthquake; no one appeared to have felt it, (these perched towns I could not reach); and so it was, until arriving at Mola da Gaeta, on the coast, and close under the rather lofty hills of Monte Castellone and Suvoreta, the southern terminations of the next great knot of mountains, that spreads out towards the S.W., and here covers a large tract between this place (Mola), Pontecorvo on the north and east, and Fondi on the north and west, or about ten geographical miles by eight.

At Mola the shock was distinctly felt by great numbers, but not by every one; many persons, although awake and dressed, as well as many others asleep, were unconscious of it, by sensation. Mola, though close to rock, stands upon detrital material, which is cut into by small streams going