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CXI. An Account of what happened at Ber- 
gemoletto, by the tumbling down of vajl 
Heaps of Snow from the * Mountains there , 
on March 19, 1755 : As taken by the In- 
tendant of the Town a?id Province of 
Cuneo. Received from Dr. Jofeph Bruni, 
Profeffor of Philofophy at Turin, and 
F. R. S. Communicated by Mr. Henry 
Baker, F. R. S. Tranflated from the Ita- 
lian. 
Read Nov. u,1TN the neighbourhood of Demonte, as 
1 one defcends through the upper Val- 
ley of Stura, on the left hand, about an hour and 
half diftant from the road leading to the cattle of 
Demonte, towards the middle of the mountain, there 
were fome houfes in a place called by the inhabi- 
tants Bergemoletto, which on the 19th of March, 
in the morning, (there being then a great deal of 
fnow) were intirely overwhelmed and ruined by two 
vatt bodies of fnow, that tumbled down from the 
* A remarkable inftance of the fall of a vaft mafs of fnow from the 
Alps, and of mifchief occafioned by it, is mentioned by Paulus Jovius 
in his Life of Pompeius Columna. — “ Pompeius — trails Alpes 
“ contendit, quo itinere fummum fe vitae periculum adiifie faepe 
“ memorabat, quum ipfo Peninas fuperante Alpes devoluta in- 
“ gens e fummis Alpium jugis nivium moles permultos omnis ge- 
“ neris mortales, ct in hjs integrant Sedunorum legationeni paucis 
“ ante fe paffibus oppreffifTct.” 
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