^"' [c«. 



til.. 1.,1 



53 '^e rise 



I 



a 





'"^sa 



ance 



masi 



) 



^ch Lad been 

 '^ll attested, 

 ■'^"b' i miles 



f February 5. 



lliat tliis pte- 



'i.ity of the 



and tlie CTeat 



}d behind it. 

 derived from 



1 ir 



of those 



_Teat slides or 

 rrv^t lake near 



wo m 



ountains 



their origin^ 

 ■ tin, ana there 



^ ^^'^: . 1^ to 



,• ■! Oil" p 



t* 



^I. 



iip- 



3:2- 



Cii. XXIX.] 



LANDSLIPS NEAR SORIANO. 



131 



soaked^ so that a great part of it was reduced to a state of 

 fluid paste. Strange alterations in the outline of tlie ground 

 were the consequence^ as the soil to a great depth was easily 

 moulded into any form. In addition to this change, the 

 ruins of the neighbouring hills were precix>itated into the 



olives were uprooted^ others re- 



maiiy 



masses 



hollow ; 



mained 



angles. (See fig- 118.) The small river Caridi was entirely 



concealed for many days ; and when at length it reappeared, 



it had shaped for itself a new channel. 



Near 



o 



FlcT. 118 



Changes of the surface at 37ra RamoBdo, near Soriano, in Calabria. 



' 1 . Portion of a hill covered with, olives 

 thrown down. 



2, New bed of the river Caridi. 

 o. Town of Soriano. 



hurled to a distance of 200 feet, into a valley 60 feet in depth. 



same time a deen chasm 



m 



and the river immediately entered the fissure, leaving its 

 former bed completely dry. A small inhabited house, stand- 

 ing on the mass of earth carried down into the valley, went 

 along with it entire, and without injury to the inhabitants. 

 The olive-trees, also, continued to grow on the land which 

 had slid into the valley, and bore the same year an abundant 

 crop of fruit. 



K 2 



