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12 At Montemurro I found no better witness of the events of the shock, than my host of the "cabane" Giuseppe, who was, I believe, a contrabandista, and had come to prey upon the ruins of the place, with probably a good understanding with the gendarmes in charge. He was not able to add any very material fact.

The time precisely of the first shock, no one knew anything about; the second was about an hour after the first. The movement, Giuseppe thought, was in a direction, that when pointed out with the hand, turned out to be from S.E. to N.W. He was thus not far astray as to path, but reverse to the real direction; but "there was movement every way, and he was alarmed." The sound was "very distinct and terrible;" he heard it and felt the first movement at the same instant, but "it continued after he had got into the street, he thought, a good while, but was not ure, for the noise of the falling city overpowered him."