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376 have been observable with better instruments and nearer to the seismic verticals. Battista, in his 'Relazione di Terremoto,' &c. (of 1857) mentions, amongst other loosely-observed circumstances, that wells, and also particular places (as about Bella and Moliterno) exhaled unusual smells, such as of sulphur and bitumen, before the earthquake: for these his narrative, which is full of like wonders, must be consulted.

All the facts mentioned under this head may with advantage be compared with the section, On Connection between Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena and Earthquakes in Report on the Facts, &c. Brit. Ass. Rep. 1850, pp. 63—78, by myself.