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Rh square form, and without visible tye-bars of iron, stands entire; it leans a little out of plumb towards the N.E. The two bells which had hung from timber in its top story, were thrown out and on to the ground; and it was affirmed to me by several persons that one bell had chanced to fall right over the other like an extinguisher, both falling mouth down, and the upper one getting split. The spot upon which they were alleged to have alighted was pointed out to me, and the plane of fall indicated a wave-path of 63° 30' E. of north. Many of the houses indicated a wave-path from fissures, approaching west to east.

The day was so extremely cold that very few inhabitants, and none of the better order, were visible. The place did not present any very striking features, and having a very heavy march to complete before nightfall in order to reach Potenza by Tito, I therefore did not attempt to look for evidence here as to emergence, and left with a cursory examination.

A steep and continuous ascent of more than three miles to the south, leads up a long mountain ridge, the Serra Alta, the highest point of which is very little lower than the shoulder of the Marmo. From this I see Barragiano, at about six miles away to the north clearly, and with the telescope can see that it has suffered a good deal. A church to the south side of the town (which latter is perched, as usual, upon a lofty colline, broad and lumpy) shows distinctly, even at this distance, that the wave-path there was about from S.W. to N.E. Far away, beyond it, and over a tumultuous ocean of mountains and valleys, I see the town of Muro, perched upon a lofty mass of mural crags, and far behind it again, the huge forms of the highest ridges of

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