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siderable interval—and so it stands, On t De 
ber, both in Sala and Potenza, strong shocks were felt, followed by many 
0 
Resina says, that on the night of the 29th, from 10 P.M, to 5 A.M. 
bration 
Every three minutes a sound was heard as of a person attempting t 
wrench the doors and windows out of their places, followed by a quiver 
The next morning the mountain was observed to vomit forth much smoke 
and a cloud of ashes. Friends, too, who reside at Capo di Marte, near 
the city, speak of the deep thunders which they hear from the mountain 
in the stillness of the night. The same phenomena are observed at 
e 
& 
English gentlemen who have just returned from the eens 
disaster give the following interesting though harrowing dye % 
“hag e 0 
doned told us 
thrown to the ground; the landlord of a tavern now aban 
that he had the good fortune to escape with his wife, but that his aa 
and servant had been both killed. He himself bore the mat! 
heavy blow on his face. The population of this place w i 
3 ; - whilst 
and 143 bodies only had been dug out on the Ist of January; it 
200 more were knov be missing. The whole town was gs 
with the exception of six houses, which were in a falling state. i 
Pertosa and Polla the strength and caprice of the earthqu 
ake were made 
manifest in a remarkable way. Crossing a deep ravine, 
we found the 
depth the limestone caverns in the bowels of the earth. re 
seamed with fissures; and we could put our arms into them ie fallen 
shoulders. Polia has a population of 7,000 persons :—1,000 | 
sition: the mountain above it h en cleft in two, revealing to a 
ad been e ‘h, The ground was 
