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On Church Bells. 



Weight. Diameter 

 Cwt. in inches. 



c. 17 47^ Magdalen College, Oxford, 10; St. Pierre Port, 



Guernsey, 8. 



c. 18 47 \ Avebury, 5; Aldbourne, 8. 



48 Devizes, St. Mary, 6; Urchfont, 8. 

 48^ Cathedral, Bristol, 4. 



c. 19 48J Ogbourne St. George, 5. 



48 f Steeple Ashton, 6; Amesbury, 6. 



49 New College, Oxford, 10. 



c. 20 



50 Downton, 5. 



c. 21 50i 



50f Olveston, Gloucester, 6; Thornbury, 8. 

 51 Devizes, St. John, 8. 

 51 \ St. Lawrence, Reading, Berks, 10, 

 c. 23 51| 

 52 



c. 25 52J 



52f Great Bedwyn, 6. 

 53 



53± St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 6. 



53J St. Edmund's, Sarum, 6; St. Mary, Reading, 8. 



53f St. Thomas', Sarum, 8. 



54 Merton College, Oxford, 8. 

 c. 27 54J 



56 Cathedral, Winchester, 8. 

 c. 29 56i 



c. 33 58 Westbury, Wilts, 

 c. 38 59± Bath Abbey, 10. 



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 

 \\ 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 



