This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...the recollections of the fate of buried Harold in the fete of a living and reigning Emperor. CHAPTER XII. CAEN. Being wide awake at "Gunfire," on the morning of Tuesday, the 15th of August, and on the watch for every novel sound that should inaugurate the Jour de Fete, I heard the "salvoes of artillery," the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...the recollections of the fate of buried Harold in the fete of a living and reigning Emperor. CHAPTER XII. CAEN. Being wide awake at "Gunfire," on the morning of Tuesday, the 15th of August, and on the watch for every novel sound that should inaugurate the Jour de Fete, I heard the "salvoes of artillery," the salute of twenty-one guns, according to order, --and, also, the tolling of a certain number of bells; but, as the majority of my readers probably know, Bell-Ringing in England and Bell-Ringing in France are widely different performances. The largest bells in each tower are tolled; in somewhat quicker time, perhaps, than when they are employed for any purpose connected with the service or ceremonies of the Church, --but, still, without any the slightest approach to what we understand by the words, "Ringing of the Bells." Peals are unknown upon the Continent; and he who crosses the Straits of Dover will not hear a triple-bobmajor again till his return to " The Ringing Island," as Britain was called, even before the Conquest, by the wondering foreigners who first heard the marvellous music of our Church towers. We now wonder, in our turn, at the beautiful harmony of the Carillons, or Chiming bells, in Continental cities, --in Antwerp, especially, where the steeples are resonant day and night. I conceive the immense size of the bells of large churches abroad precluded any attempt to poise them as we do, to subject them to the wheel movements. Edward III., some years after the memorable battle of Crecy, erected a tower in the Little Sanctuary at Westminster, to contain three ponderous bells for St. Stephen's Chapel, the largest of which displayed at its verge these words, cast in the metal: "King Edwarde...
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