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All this was done, not with any iftipetuous Mo- 
tion, but very gently, and even fometimes alraoft 
imperceptibly 5 a fenfibl6 Motion was obferved 
during the Space of three or four Days at different 
times 5 there was even a Houfe which did not fall 
till the loth of the prefent Month of Julp During 
all that Time no Noife was heard, any otherwife 
than what proceeded from the Rocks falling into the 
Valley, and from fome large Clods of Earth, which 
loofening themfelves from the fteeper Parts, fell 
down with Precipitation. 
By this Rolling were carried away 26 BuildingSi 
large or fmall, fome of which fublided with the 
Ground, and, being fhaken at their foundations, 
tumbled on a Heap; the Remains of fome others 
appear, as yet, on thofe Pieces of Ground that rolled 
down into the Valley, 
It is computed, that the Lands which Aided away, 
or were loA by being buried under the Rubbifh of 
the others, amount to the Number of 466 Oeuvres 
of Vineyards, 40 Septerees of arable Land, and 56 
Oeuvres of Grafs-fields, which all together may make 
up 150 Acres oi ^aris Meafute. It is obfervable, 
that in this Number were comprifed feveral Orchards, 
befides that the whole Ground was covered with 
Trees, either Walnut-trees on the Hill, or Willows 
and Poplars in the Valley^ of which they reckon 
4000 in all. 
If one may conjcdlure what was the Caufe of fo 
difmal an Accident, it feems it proceeded from the 
Situation of the Ground, and the Nature of the Soil. 
The ArA Surface of the Hill about four or five foot 
deep, was a pretty light Earth, eafiiy dried by 
the 
