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114 EAUTHQUAKES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUEY. [Ch. XXIX. 



Authorities. — Among the nnmerons antliorities, Yivenzio 



King of Napl 



a 



regular statement of Ms observations dnring the continuance 

 of the shocks ; and his narrative is drawn np with care and 

 clearness.^ Francesco Antonio Grimaldi, then secretary of 

 war, visited the different provinces at the king's command, 

 and published a most detailed description of the permanent 



o;es in the surface. f 



He 



and depth of tlie different fissures and gulplis wMcli opened, 



Fig. 108 





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oCatan^aif* 



VviT-ii ^ «§ 



iMileto 



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Marro R-/^'*^'(/;. 



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Map of part of Calabria shaken by the earthquake of 1783. 



and ascertained their number in many provinces. His com- 



mo I 



explanations of their relations, are judicious and instructive. 



Monteleone 



in the very centre of the convulsions, kept a register of the 



* Istoria cle' Tremuoti della Calabria 

 del 1783. 



t Descriz. de' Tremuoti Accad. Belle 

 Calabria iiel 1783. Napoli, 1784. 



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