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glafs on each fide, as large as the frame will 

 admit. The glaflfes are not to be let into a 

 rabbet, as ufual, but to Hide up from the 

 bottom to the top within fide, under four 

 fmall tenter hooks, and flopped at bottom 

 by a fmall fcrew, fo that the glafTes may be 

 taken out occafionally. There are to be two 

 half-inch flutters on the outfide, to fatten in 

 a bevel (not to Aide) at bottom, and with a 

 button at top. 



The top is to have a bar one inch wide, 

 and the full length of the frame, and is to 

 be let in at each end fo as to be flufh with 

 the top, and at half an inch diftance from 

 each fide of the box. 



A door-way % to be cut at one end, 

 pne inch and a half long, and half an inch 

 high : this is to be efteemed the front. At 

 the other end or back, a like door-way is to 

 be cut ; and another three inches higher. 



On the top edges of the box are to be two 

 narrow flips or ledges fattened ; between 

 which are to lie (not to Aide in a rabbet) 

 two pieces of glafs, each half the length, and 

 fufficlent in width to cover the top between 



