J72 EARTHaUAKES. fjt' 
. It had been stated, in the reports made to Govern'^^if 
that two tenements, named Macini and Vaticano, ta' [j 
the eftect of the eardiquake, changed their situauo^ ,i/’ 
this fact Sir William agrees, and he accounts for_it_ 
Tills KtCt Oil >T iiilUliA .K 
follou'ing milliner U'hey were situated m a 
rounded by high grounds, and the surface ot 
rouncK-ci oy ^luiuiu- • * i 
which had been removed, had probably been long sp: 
mined by the little rivulets which flow Irom the 
and were in full view on the liare spot the teiu-mcij 
deserted. He conjectuj-es besides, tlmt, the cart i 
having opened some dej)o.t!tions ot rain-water -j;iw 
clavey hills which surround the valley, the water, pi 
with the loose soil, and lakiiig its course suddenly 
the undermined surtace, bad lifted it up, together .fjfc- 
l.rrge olive and mulberry trees, aiid a thatched 
floating the entire piece of ground, with ail Us ve^ 
about ti mile down the valley, where he saw it, A'I ^ 
These two tenements t.ccnpioo » 
of oTcuiid 'about a mile iu length, and halt a 
of the trees erect. 
breaTlth. I'lierc were iu lire vichrily several deep 
the ciirtb, not one of which wtis then more tliau *' J|)' 
breadth ; but Sir Wiluatu w,ts creiiibl)' :isstuv‘ ' , y 
i'V 
during the earthquake, one had opened wide, 
swallowed up an ox, and nearly a hundred goats. 
,4 m I 11-. 1.. *l4«. i-sf 1 • r»/ t f't 
valley he saw hollows, iu the lorra of invia-tcd cone’’^; 
which water and sand had been elected uolenuj ^j, 
Inch watei ana sauu u.iu 
time of the earthquakes, similar to those winch 
pointed out to him at Itosanio. As well at the lau 
as in every ruined town he visited, an inlerestiHo 
■was made to him, namely, fliat the male dead 
rally found under the ruins, in tlie altitude ot !> 
against the danger ; but that the altitude ot tlw , 
was usually with the hands clasped over tlis c!)**,,'! 
giving themselves up to de.spiair, unless they ^jSl i 
•' •■■ tills case they were always fbuu“,^ 
near them : in 
them in their arms, or in some attitude ■vyhich^ kj,j/ 
their anxious care to protect them. How striking ^ 
of maternal tenderness ! . , . tb® '’V 
Sir William travelled four days in the plain, u* j 
of indescribable misery. Such was the tjOV 
shock, on the 5tli ot February, that tlic inhabit 
towns were buried in an instant beneatli tlie min’ 
