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Rh (Map C), similar, though less marked phenomena, would no doubt have been apparent; of some such, I did obtain the facts. Thus Ascoli and Canoza were both badly shaken, and owed their pre-eminence in misfortune, the first, to the wave which was passed northwards, "end on," by the chain leading to beyond Melfi, and thence delivered into the plain of Ascoli, from its free lying, northern extremity: the second to the like action of the northern chains, that tail off from Palazzo to Minervino, at the east abasements of the great east and west chain of the Apennine.

It should be remarked here, that Canosa, Nocera, Senarchia, Maratea, and some other towns are marked on (the original) Map B blue, with a red elongated dot at one side, which signifies, that although most properly marked, as belonging to the blue class, or those of the second degree of injury, still lives had been lost in them, but under circumstances that did not warrant their being assigned the bad pre-eminence of the unhappy places marked (in red in original map), and by a black dot on that here produced.