FOU 
of the type, and which cannot on this account’ be rubbed 
he 
ones, are fcraped on i the broad- fides with a knife or 
proportion 
e character, and in idle exat See <a ranging of 
the deters in relation to one a er 
Milite ee the {everal appropriate 
hed we eee Faruithed Fn ear regarding the say 
kinds of foundery neceffary to the eftablifhment of that 
riety of profeflions, wherein caftings of different kinds, on the con 
— in metal, wax, plafter, &c. are defiderata: we now 
era few remarks on fuch as appertain more par- 
Pala to the fupply of our arfenals. 
The cafting of cannon, fhot, &c. — until about half 
a century ago, confidered an arduo 
fo little were.the —— principe ae 
ftood, that we are affured n ein three of the fhells call 
or the mortar fervice could i admitted into the ftores. 
Such have been the pl alsin made, that thoufands of 
articlesy which ufe e baa neceffity made of nie 
om the founderies at 
calt-iron being fufficiently foft to be 
ciently dudtile to undergo the i cane 
Such, eee 
could not be done pia at confiderable 
appeat could refult i in eee With re- 
fpect to military B seeoreees it is found expedient to have 
the whole of » mortars, ronades Sy 
and garrifon gun-carriages, caft a 
eftablifhed 1 in the vicinity of coal and i iron mines ; 
wich Sl under the prices at which they could be caft at 
t » to which both the iron and the coals muft be 
tranfporte ae 
The French have, fince the commencement t of the 
volution, fhewn what may be effected in this ia ‘of 
aaa economy, by a 
flores eee to them, 
e people 
fupplied their national guards w 
eces alt | in fmall 
"Thou t mutt i santa that a foundery fuited to 
cafting eon, of any defcription, could not be attached 
to the ordnance department of armies ferving out of the 
kingdom, we are inclined to hazard the opinion, that {mall 
laboratory furnaces, adequate to. the caiting of fhot and 
grapes but e Pe it of mufket balls, ed ie be arinexed 
there n fome - ea Dies ftoc grape-fhot 
a bee expeide a, me neceflary to make cafe- 
mufket b balls, whereby the infantry hav 
ill Tuepl ed with ammunition. 
furnaces, and crucibles, together with proper moulds, face. 
FOU 
and there would hav 
fee any objeétion to in fupply of proper 
aren ie eftablithing founderies, fuited to cafting field- 
pieces, being fhipped with extenfive armaments proceeding. 
fe ervice 5 fince the nace tie would oc 
r that i 
y pre 
ry ftores, but, in 
aufes, ae fs. 
FOUNDLING a: Hos- 
PI 
FOUN. HING, in Geography, a as of China, of the 
fecond eae in the province od ae en 3 175 m niles E.S 
oo N. lat. 26° 54". ° 49'. 
FOUN-IM, a town of ca. ong 239 al ae in the 
province of Pe.tche-li; 20 miles E. of You 
UNT, or Fonr, among Printer a or 
quantity, of chara@ters, or letters, of an kind, ia by a 
letter-founder, and forted. 
e fay, a founder has caft a fount of pica, of Englifh, 
of pearl, &c, means that he has caft a fet of characters of 
thefe kinds. 
A complete fount does not only include the running 
letter, but alfo majufcules, or large and {mall capitals, fingle 
etters, double letters, points, commas, lines, borders, 
head-pieces, tail-pieces, and numeral charaCters. 
See, Founding 
“ounts are large or {mall, according to the demand of the 
sia ve orders the undred weight, .or 
ets. the printer orders a f five hundred, 
hur 
— means that the fount fhould weigh five hundred arses 
When he demands a fount of ten fheets, it is unde pase 
ae with that loan he fhall be able to pote. ten 
r twenty forms, without being obliged to diftribute. 
founder takes his meafures heir : he reckons a hun- 
S 
ids fora form, pe bh isha Sif a mee 2: not 
that the fheet always weighs a hundred ane twenty aunts 
or the form fixty pounds ; on the contrary, it varies ac- 
cording to the fize of the form; eit it is always fup- 
pofed that there are letters left in the 
The letter-founders oe a kind of litt, 0 or tariff, wbereby 
te nts: the ecaGeu of whic that 
more ufe, and oftener r ane eated, 
than others, their cells, or cafes, | fhould be better filled and 
{tored, than thofe of the letters which do not return fo fre- 
quently, 
Thus the o, and i, for inftance, are always in greater , 
quantity than the 4, or z 
This difference will be bett perceived from a proportional — 
comparifon of thofe letters with themfelves, or fome othe 
uppofe a hundred thoufand chara&er 
the c, three thoufand ; the ¢, eleven thoufand+: the fs fix 
ee 3 the ma, three thoufand ; the 4, only thittyy and 
the and 2, not man 
upper cafe mir other proportions, which it ‘would -be 
here too long to i on, 
IN, ows 4 in Shee kag a. fpring, or fource, 
of water, rifing out of the gro r 
wth ig 
