ABOUT BELLS
The largest bell in the world is the Great Bell of Moscow, which weighs 198 tons, is 19ft high .and GOft around the rim. It was cast in 1653, but fell down in a fire and remained sunk in the earth until 1837. ' Then the Emperor Nicholas caused it to be placed on a platform, and the interior of it is now used as a chapel. The largest bell in use is another in Moscow, which weighs 128 tons. The Great Bell at St. Paul's, cast in 1881, weighs 17h tons, and is the largest in the United Kingdom. Other gigantic bells are the Great Bell at Peking (53 tons), Big Ben, Westminster (13 tons), Nanking (22 tons), Cologne Cathedral (25 tons), Great Peter, York Minster (10 tons), and Great Tom of Lincoln (5i tons). —From Mervyn Snell (13).
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 3
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