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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.	42	0	Browse	Search
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unds; and the bell of Rouen, cast in 1501, weighed over 36,000 pounds. One of the pieces in my collection which I the most highly value is the silver bell [made by Benvenuto Cellini] with which the Popes used to curse the caterpillars, — a ceremony, I believe, now abandoned. Lahontan, in his travels, mentions a like absurd custom in Canada, the solemn excommunication by the bishop of the turtle-doves, which greatly injured the plantations. For this bell I exchanged with the Marquis of Rockingham all my Roman coins in large brass. The rilievos, representing caterpillars, butterflies, and other insects, are wonderfully executed. — Horace Walpole. The bell known as the Liberty bell, which, on the 4th of July, 1776, announced the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was cracked while being rung in honor of the visit of Henry Clay to Philadelphia, and since then has been on exhibition in that city, together with other Revolutionary relics. The following inscription, taken

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