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EMERGENCES CONTINUED.
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Stations for Emergences — continued.
Stations. Elevation
above
the Sea.
Observed
Maximum and Minimum
Values of e
Feet.
Tito 2,100 33° 30°
La Sala 1,768 27° 10' 24°
Chiesa della Trinita 800 23°
Potenza 2,580 23° 07'
Padula 900 25° 30' 20°
Avigliano 3,308 25° 20°
Francescani, Padula 700 20° 18°
Tramutola 2,000 18° 17°
Atella 1,800 18° 15°
Rionero 1,957 16° 30' 16°
Bareille ..
Saponara 2,300 16° 12°
Rapolla 1,800 12°
Moliterno 2,696 13° 30' 11°
Melfi 1,600 16° 20' 15°
Sarconi 2,000 16° 25'
Montemurro 2,700 20° 15°
Naples Sea level

Naples and Barielle I have eliminated, the first as belonging to the separate system of waves of reflection, and both, because, as stated in Part I., the determination of the angle e, becomes uncertain when so very small.

This Diagram is plotted to the same scale, as the Maps A and B, and to what is called "a natural scale," i.e., the vertical and horizontal scales are equal; so that the wave-paths in No. 2, represent to the eye very nearly, the precise paths of the emerging shock, at every station, as if seen in vertical section by an observer.

The greatest distance, from the seismic vertical, of any station (marked), is that of Salerno, 35 geographical miles, the next greatest being, Melfi and Sarconi, both under 27 geographical miles. The earth's sphericity, therefore, at these extreme stations, is 816 feet for the former, and 486