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Rh No injury occurred in the communes of Castellabate and Castelnuovo (Principato Citeriore). The buildings in the environs of Laurino suffered.

In the commune of Bella, about two miles from the town, in the district Carlotta d'Isca, the earthquake of the 16th December levelled hills, upturned ground, formed valleys. Half an hour before the shocks, a light like that of the moon was observed in this region, and a fetid vapour smelling like sulphur was perceptible. The double shock was felt here, and the noise heard, and the next morning an area of about six hundred moggia of tilled land was found surrounded by a furrow from ten to thirty palms in depth and the same in breadth.

From the last accounts of the district of Castellammare, we find that in the island of Capri alone was the earthquake not felt; that in the commune of Gragnano, a great many buildings were injured; and in the village of Sigliano, some houses were partly thrown down, and a young man endeavouring to escape, by jumping from a wall was hurt, but not severely; that in Pimonte the roof and facade of the cathedral were injured, and the house of one Antonio Donnarumma in falling, buried him, his wife, and two children, who were all disinterred alive and unhurt. By a report of the same date, we learn that in Ottajana, the church of S. Michael was greatly injured, and that of S. John the Baptist slightly so.

We have received from the Intendant of the province of Terra d'Otranta the following particulars relative to the effects of the earthquake of the 16th December, in the communes of that province, in which, by God's mercy, we have no deaths to deplore. In Taranto, considerable injuries to the façade of the church of S. Domenico, to that of Mount Olivet, and of S. Antonio outside of the city. Several other buildings received injuries. The private buildings in Palagiano have received insignificant injuries; the church suffered slightly. The same in Castellaneta. In the communes of Laterza and Ginosa the shock was more violent. In the first, the church belfry was so shaken, that had it not been secured for some

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