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Cn. XXIX.] EFFECTS OF CALABRIAN EAIITIIQUAKE. 



123 



Dolomieu saw a stone woU in the convent of tlic Augustins 

 at Terranuova, wliicli had the appearance of having been 



driven out of the earth. 



■esembled 



8 or 9 



feet in height, and a Httle inchned. This effect, he says, 

 was produced by the consolidation and consequent sinking of 

 the sandy soil in which the well was dng. 



In some walls which had been thrown down, or violently 

 ^T.oi-^-n in Arnnfplpnnp +bft spiiarate stones were "carted from 



the mortar, so as to leave 



mould 



they had 



rested ; whereas in other cases the mortar was ground to 



d'-ist between the stones. 



i^ 



Eig. 111. 



Shift or ' fault' in the Eound Tower of Terranuova in Calabria, occasioned by the 



earthquake of 1783. ~ 



It appears that the wave-like motions often produced 

 effects of the most capricious kind. Thus, in some streets of 

 Monteleone, every house was thrown down but one ; in 

 others, all but two ; and the buildings which were spared 

 were often scarcely in the least degree injured. In many 



cities of Calabria, all 



most solid buildincjs were thrown 



down, while those which were slightly built escaped ; but at 



Eosarno, 



Mess 



Sicily, it was precisely the 



massive 



As the earthquake-wave passed along the surface of the 



ma 



