Excerpt from The Bells and Crosses of the Mission Inn and the Ford Paintings of the California Missions Before entering upon the pleasant labor of giving a detailed description of this largest and most valuable collection of bells, it will be interesting to jot down a few observations with regard to the subject of bells in general. The whole of civilized life is set to bell music in one shape or another, and runs the entire gamut from the monster church bell, weighing many tons, down to the jingling baubles on a child's rattle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.