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[ I am not aware that there is any general history of the bell, beginning with the rattle, the gong and other primitive forms of the article; but the subject seems worthy of a monograph. In Hebrew Writ the bell first appears in Exod. xxviii. 33 as a fringe to the Ephod of the High Priest that its tinkling might save him from intruding unwarned into the bodily presence of the tribal God, Jehovah.]
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[ Gennesaret (Chinnereth, Cinneroth), where, according to some Moslems, the Solomon was buried.]
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[ I cannot explain this legend.]
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[ So the old English rhyme, produced for quite another purpose by Sir John Bull in "Wat Tyler's Rebellion" (Hume, Hist. of Eng., vol. i. chapt. 17):—
"When Adam dolve and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?"
A variant occurs in a MS. of the xvth century, Brit. Museum:—