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Show The Biggest Hanging Bell. What Is perhaps the largest hanging bell in tho world Is to bo seen In Mandalay. This is the Mlngun bell, on tho right bank of tho Irrawaddy, almost opposite tho city of Mandalay. This Immense bell measures as follows: fol-lows: Height to crown, 12 feet; 21 feet high to tho top of tho grlffln-llko monsters; diameter at the lip, 16 feet 3 Inches; thickness of metal, from 6 inches to 12 Inches. It weight) about 80 tons, and Is suspended on three massive round beams of teak placed horizontally tho ono over the other, their ends resting on two pillars of onormoua size, composed of masonry and largo upright teak posts. This bell waB cast at the end of tho eighteenth eight-eenth century under the superintend-onco superintend-onco of tho relguing king. |