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Rh Upon the front wall above the centre, stood a small arched campanile of brick and plaster, (Fig. 3). Its piers, only 1 foot 6 inches x 11 inches, have both been in great part thrown down, and the arched part fell in upon the roof, in a direction nearly N.E. The east pier has been twisted precisely 17° (Fig. 1), so that its narrow faces are just north and south by compass now, this is a mere accident, however. The evidences were not sufficient for calculation, but it was obvious to tact, that the shock must have had, a low horizontal velocity, or the whole of this little structure, must have been broken off at the level of the entablature, of the front of the Casa, and projected to the ground.

The Church of St. Angelo della Trinita, has in great part been thrown down; the campanile tower, fissured both north and south, and east and west. (See Photog. No. 309, Coll. Roy. Soc) The fissures give a wave-path about 77° E. of north, from the S. W.; indications bad.

The Collegio di Jesuiti, has the axial line of its principal mass 18° E. of north. There are fissures though not measureable, on the north and south and east and west walls, (Fig. 310). The east wall of the great hall, has gone out towards the east, about 7 inches at top.

In the entrance corridor, a large picture, which hung from two nails, its size 6½ feet x 5 feet, upon a wall ranging east and west, has drawn the nail to the west end, and is down six inches, resting upon a ledge at that end, indicating emergence from the west at a pretty sharp angle.

The ceiling of the great dormitory on the first floor, a room about 70 feet x 26 feet, is flat, and covered with thick white paper, on canvas below the boarding beneath. It is