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20 street to the Palazzo Marotta. (See Diagram No. 282, Fig. 2.) The longer axis of Don Antonio's house, stood 35° W. of north and south, and the S.E. gable and courtyard, with its demolished gateway, are seen in Photog. No. 278 (Coll. Roy. Soc.) The east pier and all the blocks of stone of the elliptic arch above, had been thrown down, and lay as they fell. The general direction of wave-path that they gave, and more especially that given by the key blocks which had fallen, the most unperturbed in its course, was