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GREAT NEAPOLITAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1857.




THE FIRST PRINCIPLES

OF

OBSERVATIONAL SEISMOLOGY

AS DEVELOPED IN THE

REPORT TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
OF THE EXPEDITION MADE BY COMMAND OF THE SOCIETY INTO
THE INTERIOR OF THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES,

TO INVESTIGATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 1857.

BY

ROBERT MALLET, C.E., F.R.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A.,
&c., &c.


"Non fingendum aut excogitandum sed inveniendum quid natura faciat aut ferat."


PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY AND WITH THE AID OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.



IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.



CHAPMAN AND HALL, LONDON.
1862.
The Right of Translation is reserved.