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The bell is big, so the traveller is expected to make every effort to see it. It's the design that counts. The Flotilla steamer does not always stop at Mingun; we went steaming past it on our left.
You will see these bells in one of the pictures, but there are some others of immense size, that at Mingun weighing eighty tons; but, as a rule, the tone of the very large bells is poor, and not to be compared with that of those of more moderate size. There are one or two places in Burma particularly rich in pagodas Pagan, Sagaing, and Mandalay. I want to tell you just a little about each.
We got nothing, and yet I saw a Burman in a dug-out log, with a no whit better rod, pull up a beauty like a sea trout of two pounds, as he drifted past; so next stopping place I hope you will hear of fish "grassed" or "creeled," as they say in the papers. We pass Mingun, half-an-hour up the river from Mandalay. I've mentioned this place before and its bell.
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