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The other Village, which is properly called 
dines^ was compofed of the greater Part of the Houfes 
of the Inhabitants ro the Number of 46 Buildings j 
the Ground whereon this Village was built, as well 
as that of the whole Hill, is a good and light Earth, 
mixed with a little white Clay : There are alfo found 
in it fome Stones and Rocks of a middling Size. This 
Land was very well cultivated, and very fruitful, con- 
fiding of Fields fowed with Corn, of Orchards, and 
for the greater Part of Vineyards ,• the whole Ground 
was overfpread with Fruit-trees, particularly Walnut- 
trees. 
This Earth ufed to dry foon and chap from the 
Heat 5 they even obferved in it long fince Clefts of 
a confiderable Depth, which fometimes growing 
wider and wider, formed feveral Gullies. 
On the 23d of ’June 1733. about Nine in the 
Evening, the Inhabitants of the Village of 'Sardines 
faw the Walls of their Houfes (hake fenlibly 5 where- 
upon they all retired out of them, and faw that the 
Hill vifibly melted away, as it were, the greater Part 
of the Land Biding along towards the Valej others 
fubfided fenfibly 5 in fome Places the Earth, opening 
itfelf, formed new Gulls, and thofe that were ob- 
ferved there before, grew much wider; fometimes 
the Ground which Bided along in great Pieces, Bopt 
and tumbled one Piece over the other ; and the Rocks, 
which broke loofe from that rolling Earth, preci- 
pitated themfelves into the Valley, which at prefent 
is quite filled up with them, as well as with the 
Earth which rolled down, whereby the Road from 
IJfoire to Clermont is become impaflable. 
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