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i. 377; difference in azimuths of primary and secondary shocks at, i. 387; final deduction as to both shocks at, i. 390; further observations on, i. 391; gables of refectory at, i. 392; amplitude of the wave deduced at, i. 394; vase in Prior's garden at, i. 394; thrown chimney caps at, i. 395; return to the, ii. 31; striking features of the peaked-ness of the limestone mountains northwards, and end-on-edness of the beds near, ii. 32. Chiesa d'Incoronata, the shock at the, i. 252. Chiesa Madre at Molitemo, i. 409. Chiesa Madre at Tramutola, fissures in, ii. 23; statue of St. Leonardo in, ii. 24; figure of St. Michael in, ii. 25. Chimney at the monastery of St. Lorenzo the Certosa), near Padula, oscillation of the, i. 380. Coefficients of fracture, tables of, 1. 149—154. Cohesion and adhesion—cements, i. 45. Cohesion and adhesion, i. 154. Columns, effects of shock on, 1. 87. Columns overturned, i. 128. Configuration, effects of the physical, of the surface, and the formation beneath it, upon the progress of the wave, ii. 258. Croce, Monte, snowed up on, ii. 119; grand scenery between, and Laviano, ii. 135. Curves, cause of the flattening of the co-seismals to the extreme south-east, ii. 279. Cylindric vaulting, i. 114. Data for determining the velocities and directions of shocks given by fractured walls and overthrown objects, i. 8. Deaths from earthquake, estimate of, ii. 164; mostly preventible by proper care in the construction of houses, ii. 164. Decay of the wave considered, nature of, ii. 349. Deductions and conclusions, general. Part II., ii. 233.
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Depth of focus of earthquake, first approximate calculation of the, ii. 45. Depths, local, remarkable result of comparison of, ii. 343. D'Errico's, Signor, document, shock at Montefermo, ii. 74. Determinants, first class of, fractures in rectangular buildings as evidences of wave-path, i. 33; second class of, objects overturned or projected by shock, i. 124. Diagonal fissures, i. 118. Diano, view of the town of, i. 165; Vallone di, formation of, i. 319; geology of, i. 320; town of, little injury from the shock at, i. 329; cause of its immunity explained, i. 330. Diano, great plain of, no permanent change of level discoverable, though certainly perceptible, if any, on the, ii. 33; enormous erosive action by winter floods on the, ii. 33. Disasters of the earthquake, synoptic table of, in the district of Sala, ii. 161. Disintegration, result of direction of fracture, i. 83. Dislocation combines fracture and overthrow, i. 82. Distortion of the isoseismals, actual cause of, ii. 275. Divergence of wave-paths approximately equal to the horizontal dimension of the focal cavity, ii. 246. Duchessa, La, post-house, first prostrate walls seen at, i. 246; indications at, conflicting with those at Naples, i. 247; sounds at, i. 248. Earth-light, probable nature of, ii. 375. Earthquake, the, at Naples, Dec. 16, 1857, the author receives authority of the Royal Society to make scientific investigations connected with, i. 1; to be investigated by means of its phenomena or effects, i. 6. Earthquake phenomena, questions for inquiry and methods of observations of, i. 5; entirely new mode of examining, based on the proposition that the
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