Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . unds; another Paris bell, cast in 1473, weighed 35,000; thefamous bell of Rouen, cast in 1501, weighed 36,364 pounds. Tlie largest bell in the world is theGreat Bell or Monarch of Mos-cow, above 21 feet in height anddiameter, and weighing 193 was cast in 1734, but fell downduringafire in 1737, was injured,and remained sunk in the earthtill 1837, when it was raised, andnow forms the dome of a chajielmade by excavating the spacebelow it. Another Moscow bell,cast in 1819, weighs 80 Great Bell at Pekin
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . unds; another Paris bell, cast in 1473, weighed 35,000; thefamous bell of Rouen, cast in 1501, weighed 36,364 pounds. Tlie largest bell in the world is theGreat Bell or Monarch of Mos-cow, above 21 feet in height anddiameter, and weighing 193 was cast in 1734, but fell downduringafire in 1737, was injured,and remained sunk in the earthtill 1837, when it was raised, andnow forms the dome of a chajielmade by excavating the spacebelow it. Another Moscow bell,cast in 1819, weighs 80 Great Bell at Pekin, 14 feet^^high, witli a diameter of 13 feet,pJ weiglis 531 tons; those of Olmiitz,~^ Rouen, and Vienna, nearly 18tons; that first cast for the NewPalace at Westminster (butcracked), 14 tons; that of the Roman Catholic cathedral at Mon-treal (cast 1847), 13i tons; Great Peter, placed in York Minster1845, lOf tons; Great Tom at Lincoln, 5i tons; tlie new GreatBell of St. Pauls, cast in 1881, 17+ tons, the largest in the United I St Ninian9 Bell, as figured in theabove Great Bell at Moscuw. Kingdom. See Gattys The Bell (1848); Quarterly Review (1854).From old usage, bells are iuthnately connected with tlie servicesof the Christian^hurcli—so much so, that apparently from a spiritof opposition, tife Mohauimedans reject tlie use of bells, and sub-stitute for them the cry of tlie Imaum from the top of the in various ways with the ancient ritual of the church,bells acquired a kind of saired character. They were foundedwith religious ceremonies (see Scliillers ode), and consecrated bya complete baptismal service; received names, had sjjonsors, weresprinkled with water, anointed, and finally covered with the whitegarment or chrisom, like infants. Tliis usage is as old as the timeof Alcuin, and is still practised in Roman Catholic liad mostly pious inscriptions, often indicative of the wide-s])read belief in the mysterious virtue of their soun
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