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A more modern suppolition accounts sor the
motion, by placing the soundation on certain
woolpacks, the elajiiciiy of ivhlcb causes the tower
to vibrate on ringing of peals.
Others say that the foundation sunk on the
West'lide, when the tower was half completed,,
with a sudden shock, which threw the scafFolds
and men on them to the ground; and that it
remained thus twenty years, and was then com-
J.J ' •*
pleted.
To conclude, it is generally believed, that a
bason silled with water will be completely emp?
tied by the mere concussion, if placed on the
roof during a peal ; but that assertion is untrue,
as the sexton informed me he had depolited a
bason full of water there, and found that the
vibration caused but very little to run over the
declining li.de.
The fact, as explained by this inofrenhVe man3
may be depended on. Had he attempted obser-
vations beyond the light and touch, his authority
could have had but little weight with me, subse-
auent to his directing my attention to several
tombs which he said belonged to persons " be-
knighted by Queen Anne and £>ueen James."
A plumber of respeclability was employed a
few years past in mending the lead on the roof of
the tower, when a peal commenced unknown to
him.
A more modern suppolition accounts sor the
motion, by placing the soundation on certain
woolpacks, the elajiiciiy of ivhlcb causes the tower
to vibrate on ringing of peals.
Others say that the foundation sunk on the
West'lide, when the tower was half completed,,
with a sudden shock, which threw the scafFolds
and men on them to the ground; and that it
remained thus twenty years, and was then com-
J.J ' •*
pleted.
To conclude, it is generally believed, that a
bason silled with water will be completely emp?
tied by the mere concussion, if placed on the
roof during a peal ; but that assertion is untrue,
as the sexton informed me he had depolited a
bason full of water there, and found that the
vibration caused but very little to run over the
declining li.de.
The fact, as explained by this inofrenhVe man3
may be depended on. Had he attempted obser-
vations beyond the light and touch, his authority
could have had but little weight with me, subse-
auent to his directing my attention to several
tombs which he said belonged to persons " be-
knighted by Queen Anne and £>ueen James."
A plumber of respeclability was employed a
few years past in mending the lead on the roof of
the tower, when a peal commenced unknown to
him.