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_Church Bells_ (Vol. iii., p. 339.).--Should the following extract from
Mr. Fletcher's _Notes on Nineveh_ have escaped the notice of MR. GATTY,
it may probably interest him:--
"During the following (12th) century Dionysius Bar Salibi occupied the
(Jacobite) patriarchal throne, a man noted for piety and learning. He
composed several works on theological subjects, among which we find a
curious disquisition on bells, the invention of which he ascribes to
Noah. He mentions that several histories record a command given to
that patriarch to strike on the bell with a piece of wood three times
a day, in order to summon the workmen to their labour while he was
building the ark. And this he seems to consider the origin of church
bells, an opinion which, indeed, is common to other Oriental
writers."--Vol. ii. p. 212.