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Second method. 

 Or a sheet of paper may be laid on the inscription, and 

 rubbed on the back with a piece of heel-ball, such as shoe- 

 makers use ; or upon the first sheet, slightly damped, a 

 second sheet smeared over with lamp-black, may be laid, and 

 rubbed on the clean side with a smooth stone, piece of 

 smooth wood, or a billiard ball, or anything not so rough 

 as to tear the paper ; two or three impressions may be taken 

 off at once if the inscription be at all deeply cut (as the 

 Uniyastic inscriptions usually are), by laying down first a 

 clean, and then a blackened sheet, with face downward, then 

 another clean sheet, with another blackened sheet, &c. &c. 

 I have taken six or eight impressions at once this way. If 

 you have not any lamp-black, you can make enough for the 

 purpose in a few minutes, by holding a dry and cold plate 

 over the flame of a lamp or candle. 



This plan may be varied, according to circumstances, and 

 will be generally easy to an unpractised person. 



