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mon traditions of earthquakes having desolated, i. 237; direction of shock there, i. 238. Polla, a part of, dislocation through enormously thick, ill-filled mortar joints in, i. 93; direction of shock exemplified in a street in, i. 99; fissures on the road near, i. 288; position of, i. 291; destruction and terrors at, i. 292, 293; and its neighbourhood, observations at, i. 294; monastery of St. Claire at, i. 295; Madonna of Loretto at, i. 296; St. Dominico, i. 297; heavy dislocated and inclined fissures in arched wall of monastery of St. Dominico, i. 298; views of isolated sluice-house fissured at, i. 299; Palazzo Palmieri at, i. 302; angles of emergence and velocity determined at, i. 311—315; sounds and time at, i. 317; road from, i. 321.
Population, Neapolitan statistics of, ii. 160, 161.
Portella, shock at, ii. 154.
Potenza, arrival at, ii. 56; extent of and traffic at, ii. 57; destruction at, ii. 57; grotesque appearance of theatre converted into lodgings, ii. 57; intense cold at, ii. 57; position of, ii. 57; geology of, ii. 58; effects of shock at, ii. 59; political prisoners at, ii. 59; diminished action of shock, compared with Montemurro, ii. 59; Intendenzia at, ii. 60; Casa Communale at, ii. 60; church of St. Angelo at, ii. 61; Collegio di Jesuiti at, ii. 61; observations at the collegio, ii. 62; tower of St. Carlo at, ii. 64; agazino del Summano, ii. 65; direction of wave-path at, ii. 65; street-lamps and Don Dominico's house, ii. 66; Chiesa Madre at, ii. 67; the campanile at, ii. 68; cathedral at, ii. 69; images and paintings, ii. 70; wave-path and direction determined by cathedral at, ii. 71; noises at, ii. 72; supposed heat at, ii. 72; no strange lights at, ii. 72.
Problems, particular, i. 138, 142.
Projection, seismical laws of, i. 16; and overthrow, i. 46.
Projected bodies or structures, i. 165.
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Rainfall, perturbation of, in relation to earthquake, ii. 168, 169; suggestions as to probable connection, ii. 170, 171; modifications, ii. 172.
Rapolla, position of, ii. 112; little injury at, ii. 112; wave-path at, ii. 112.
Rectangular buildings, fractures in, as evidences of wave-path, i. 33; normal shock, 38, 39; subnormal shock, i. 52; abnormal shock, i. 59; sub-abnormal shock, i. 65; shocks of vertical or nearly vertical emergence, effects on, i. 75.
Reflection and refraction, ii. 356.
Refraction in mountain chains, ii. 242.
Reiteration of the shock in some localities, and its cause, ii. 302.
Relations of seismal area and depth, ii. 257; to conformable inclined beds, ii. 263; to incoherent formations, ii. 264; of the seismic foci of the Italian peninsula, and the general relations of the seismic bands of the Mediterranean basin, ii. 378.
Retrospects and concluding words, ii. 384.
Rhodes, severe shock felt at, on day preceding the earthquake of December, 1857, i. 202.
Rionero, position of, ii. 91; picturesque appearance of inhabitants, ii. 91; examination of, ii. 92; wave-path at, ii. 92.
Rivers, changes of channels, ii. 369; courses, great, i. 164; falls of the great, i. 169; courses of, i. 171; turbidity of, ii. 369.
Rock, first example of actual fracture of beds of, i. 405; falls of, ii. 367.
"Rombo," at Moliterno, said by every one to have been heard, i. 412.
Rome, Ancient, earthquakes of, i. 115; ancient earthquake effects at, ii. 157.
Roofs and floors, relations of, i. 102.
Roofs, groined and domed, i. 112; vaulted, i. 113; construction of, in Neapolitan kingdom, i. 115.
Roofing, relations of, i. 110.
Rossi, Achille Antonio, Storia dei Tremuoti di Calabria, negli 1835, 1836, ii. 174.
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