Travelogues; . KREMLIN RAMPARTS MOSCOW 203. IVAN S TOWER a battery of picturesque old cannon, of whicfi the biggest andmost ornamental and most ridiculously useless is the so-calledTsar of the Cannon of the Kremlin. The thirteen-inchguns of modern warfare seem mere bean-blowers in compari-son with this stumpy thunderer which takes a ball measur-ing one meter in diameter. But unfortunately this piece ofordnance cannot project these 39-inch balls without endan-gering its own integrity and also that of the entire impressive, although voiceless also, is the Tsar of Bells, the huges
Travelogues; . KREMLIN RAMPARTS MOSCOW 203. IVAN S TOWER a battery of picturesque old cannon, of whicfi the biggest andmost ornamental and most ridiculously useless is the so-calledTsar of the Cannon of the Kremlin. The thirteen-inchguns of modern warfare seem mere bean-blowers in compari-son with this stumpy thunderer which takes a ball measur-ing one meter in diameter. But unfortunately this piece ofordnance cannot project these 39-inch balls without endan-gering its own integrity and also that of the entire impressive, although voiceless also, is the Tsar of Bells, the hugest in theworld, weighing two hun-dred tons. The bell wascast in 1735, but was nottaken from the mold untiltwo years later, beforeM which time, unhappily, aconflagration cracked off
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