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THE INTENDENZIA—THE CASA COMMUNALE.

the city, accompanied by an intelligent officer of gendarmerie, Don Carlo Gonzales, Cancelliere di Polizia, in Potenza, who was appointed by the Intendente to attend me.

The Intendenzia is fissured much; it is at the east side of the market-place, and the east or front wall has bulged outwards, and is strutted and propped for its entire length. All the cross walls are fissured. The shock displaced much of the furniture therein—fissures not fitted for measurements.

The Casa Communale is at the north end of the same market-place, Photog. No. 307 (Coll. Roy. Soc.), and

Diagram 308.

Diagram 308: its axial line, is 17° W. of north. {See Figs. 1 and 2.) It has several thread-like fissures, which indicate a wave-path about 47° 30' E. of north, from the S.W.