MOMENT OF SHOCK AT ATELLA.
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and at and in the campanile. The general indication is from the S.W. to N.E., but the fissures will not admit of exact measurement. The old clock in the octagonal roof of the campanile, which has been much shattered, still shows by its index, Fig. 320, that it was stopped on
Fig. 320.
the night of the 16th Dec. last, at twenty-two minutes past five, Italian time. The Canonico tells me, it has not been touched since.
| h. | m. | s. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The sun's upper limb set at Atella on the 16th Dec., 1857, at | 4 | 30 | 38 |
| Clock shows Italian time | 5 | 22 | 0 |
| Add the customary quarter hour after sunset | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Frankish mean time at Atella | 10 | 7 | 38 |
| Naples is west of Atella, in time | 0 | 5 | 44 |
| Clock therefore stopped at Frankish mean time of Naples, at | 10 | 1 | 54 |
The two ancient bells, had been chucked out of their old timber fastenings, and thrown against the N.E. side of the octagonal part of the belfry, which they had carried away and fallen with it, but in a way so disturbed by obstacles, as
