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Compared with foreign bells, English ones are of no very great 

 size; but from the custom of round and change ringing amongst 

 us, we have come to think more of our own. There is a magnificent 

 clock bell over the Mairie, at Rennes in Brittany, 86j inches in 

 diameter and 6 inches thick at the sound-bow (a larger bell by 

 11 inch than Great Tom of Oxford), which nobody takes notice 

 of, although its fine deep tones are heard every hour; whereas we 

 make a sort of peep-show of Great Tom. The epigraph upon it is 

 "Jay ete fondue a Rennes Capitale de la Province daus l'enclos de 



