Pane. 
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hand ee at..the he top 
and places the point of it againit the middle of the notch 
in the backfide of the matrice, prefling it as well ehh 
towards the mot e fhoulde 
of his body fro ee iris, and brings the geat of his 
ladle (full of metal) to the mouth of the would, an 
twits the upper part of. his bcs hand halen hi im to 
turn the metal iato it, while e fame moment of t 
he jilts the mould in his left hand forwards, ne receive ie 
metal with a flrong fhake (as it is called); not only into 
the bodies of the mould, but while the metal is yet hot 
Y si {wiftly and ftrongly, into the very face of the ma- 
trice, to receive its la form there, as well as in the 
i) 
iKe 
Then he takes the upper half of the mould off the under 
half, by placing his right hand. pee on < _end of the 
wood next his 
at the other end of the woo 
break lie in a pee half of the noel, (as 
y reafon of its weight it does, ) i throws or tofles the let- 
ter, break and all, upon a fheet of wafte paper laid for that 
purpofe on the bench, jufta little beyond his left. hand, and 
ig then viel tg caft another letter as before and alfo, th 
whole n mber thatis to be caft with that m atri 
ene will ordinar ily ats about three thoufand of 
thele letters in a day: 
When the cafters at the furnace have got a fufficient 
number of types upon the tables, a fet of boys come, and 
Pianeta break away the jets from ‘hem the j e jets are thrown 
the pots, and the types are carr way in parcels to 
ae boys, who pafs them {wiftly under _ setae de- 
fended.by leather, upon eid a {ton 
lith their broad-fides. ‘Chis is a very ene 
us operation, 
and is arem 
arkable inftance of. saat may . ‘effedted by the 
power of hibit and long practice; for thefe boys, in turn- 
ing up the other fide .o pe, do it: fo quickly bya 
the 
mere touch of the fingers of the left hand, as not to require 
tie leaft pe alae intermiffion in the motion of the right 
hand upon the The types, thus parse | {moothed and 
flattened on the ee fides, are next ca ied to another fet 
{mall pr ojedt 
When 
to undergo the Finifhing ages his workman, w 
is always the motte gad “telfel in all ae different 
branches carried on at aay ade y, begins by taking, one 
of thefe flicks, and, with a peculiar addrefs, flides the whole 
column of f types off upon the dreffi ing: -ftick ; this i is made of. 
ery nee his . hank. cies it,. 
n order to po- t 
as G fais even when they are bound up, by forewing ee 
the moveable end. ae t is here where the great and 
réquifite accuracy of the moulds comes to be perceived ; for 
n this cafe the whole laa fo bound up, lies flat and 
true upon the ftick, the two extreme types being quite pa- 
rallel, and the whole has the ae of one folid con- 
it it impoftble to 
ner, by difpo say them to rife or {pring from the flick 
ie the {malleft: preflure from the {crew. - Now, when lying 
fo conveniently with the narrow edges upper rmott, which 
cannot poflibly be — in 7 manrer before mentioned 
by the ftones, the workm s this more effeGtually by 
rae a furface . the celui with a thick: edged but 
p40 which at every ftroke brings on avery fine 
fmooth fin, like to *olifhed filver 3 and thus he proceeds 
till i in about half a minute he comes to the far ther end of the 
wards, and po olifhed i 
types thus hie in the ‘deefling fick that the operation of 
bearding or barbing is performed, which is effeéted: by run- 
ning a plane, faced with. fteel, reg the eared eo ne 
body next to ae haga which t 
corner, as occa may require in ‘the Gog. 
aby they are -alfo poe which is a very material opera- 
tio norder to underftand this, it muft be remembered, 
ee when ie ae are firft broken off from the jets, iome 
vice — always ae. which would make them 
bear very v sao ually againit the paper whilft under the 
printing-pre a d effe Sie mar the impreffion. That all 
Pele ae may; therefore, be taken away, and that 
the bearings of every type may be regulated by the fhoulders 
imparted to them all alike from the mould, the workman or 
dreffer proceeds in the following manner, e types being 
ferewed up in the ftick, as before mentioned, with the jet- 
end outermoft, and projecting beyond the wood about. one 
mg v edge, whieh bears upon a flip 
clofe to the types the whole length; 
then a plough or plane is applied, ‘which is fo conftruéted 
as to embrace the projecting part of the types. betwixt. its 
long fides, which are made of polifhed iron. When the 
plane is thus applied, the fteel cutter bearing upon that part 
between fie fhoulders of ie Reka where the inequalities 
lie, the dreffer d gl talong, and by this means 
— off aes diy al part ane comes in the way, and fo 
a pages and pap n doing th 
o his left hand, aod turning the faces near bi ad tights me 
examines them carefully, and wheneve 
damaged letter orci he nimbl pees it a ai a ee 
bodkin, which he holds in the right handtor that purpofe, 
Thole letters which, from their form, projet over the body 
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