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fissure is, in places, one inch wide, and runs through floors and walls 

 alike, coursing N. 50° E. 



Direction of principal motion N.W. — S.E. 



This groap of buildings is constructed partly of limestone blocks, 

 and partly of brick. Only one of the buildings has 



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sunered severely. This is a brick erection of three 

 stories, and is aligned N. 55° W.—S. 55° E. At the S. E. end there are 

 square flanking towers, the walls of which make an angle of 135° with 

 the walls of the main structure. Every face of these towers is badly 

 fractured in all stories except the highest, which is a brick-filled frame 

 of wood, and probably yielded to the shock. The cracks are almost 

 entirely structural as shown in sketch (fig. 27). 



Fig. 27. 

 The most important cracks in the main building run N.W. — S.E., 

 but chiefly follow lines of weakness such as bay windows. In a wing 

 running N. 35° E. rounded portions of the walls are fractured vertically 

 on lines joining window openings, and a few corners of rooms are slight- 

 ly cracked. In a wall running N. 55° W. a crack hades S. E. at 30 T 



