CHAPTER IV.
JOURNEY SOUTHWARDS—AMALFI—SALERNO—VIETRI—LA CAVA—PLAIN OF PÆSTUM.
I now recur to my journey southwards. At Torre del Greco, Resina, and throughout the whole seaboard of the Bay, the shock was felt as sharply as at Naples; and generally over the whole plain of the Terra di Lavoro, in a direction from south to north: at Ottajana, to the southeast of Vesuvius, and close under the mountain, more than usual injury was done. The church of St. Michael was largely fissured, and that of St. Johannes Battista also. I did not visit that town, but an inhabitant, whom I met elsewhere, stated that the direction of shock was generally felt from south to north, but also seemed to come from Vesuvius, and the like facts were stated as to the village of Somma. Small and unindicating fissures were to be found, in the older and worse built houses, &c., everywhere. At Torre del Annunziata, the west façade of the church, is largely fissured in directions clearly indicating a wave-path, not far from south to north. Ancient fissures from former earthquakes at lower levels are visible in its walls.
At Castellammare, deduced from, not very well-defined fissures, the wave-path varied from 12° W. of N. to 6° 30’ E. of N.
