(which corresponds to that above the "Portone" of the south front) stood, before the earthquake, a wooden sort of verandah, framed, as shown in Fig. 142, and covered by a
prolongation of the slope of tiling of the roof. The whole of this had been thrown down, and was lying on the ground at and about the point (in Figs. 139, 142, and Photog. No. 138) in dislocated fragments, from which, collecting and laying together the timber-work, I was able to reconstruct the design of the fabric.
The shock emerging from the eastward had swept over the vertical posts towards the direction of the dotted lines , and the tiling of the roof had rent away from the rest at the line of the eave , twisting and drawing out the cross lintels from their sockets in the walls of the house at the eaves, the whole mass then falling in the direction of . The weight of the timber-work was insignificant, the chief mass was in the heavy tiling which it carried. A line drawn from the position of the centre of gravity of this (the projecting tiled roof) to the centre of gravity of
