132 EAETHQUAKES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUEY. Ch. XXIX. 



town 



Polistena stood^ consisting of some hundreds of houses, were 

 detached into a contiguous ravine, and nearly across it, about 



mile from 



most 



ordinary, several of the inhabitants were dug out from the 



ruins alive and unhurt. 



tenements, near Mileto, called the Macini 

 »pnr»viTio- nn p^f,pTit of P^rouud about 1 mile . 



1 



2 



a mile 



broad, were carried for 1 mile down a valley. A 

 thatched cottage, together with large olive and mulberry 

 trees, most of which remained erect, were carried uninjured 

 to this extraordinary distance. According to " 



Hamilton 



removed 



Eig. 119. 



J ■». 



Landslips near Cinqnefrondi, caused by the earthquake of 1783. 



were afterwards in full view on the bare spot deserted by the 

 tenements. The earthquake 



seems 



in the adjoining argillaceous hills, which admitted water 

 charp-ed with loose soil into the subterranean channels of 



mmediately 



tenements, so that the 



motion 



exam 



were loosened. Another 

 edifices were not destroyed, is mentioned by Grimaldi, as 

 having taken place in the city of Catanzaro, the capital of 



The houses in the quarter called 



name 



San Giuseppe subsided with the ground to various depths 



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