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the wax Impreflion, laying on the Back of the Paper 
Three or Four Pieces of thick woolen Cloth, or 
Flannel, about the Size thereof. 
I fhould premife, that you mu ft have a Couple of 
flat finooth iron Plates, about Two Inches fquare, 
and One Tenth of an Inch in Thicknefs. The wax 
Impreflion muft be placed, with its Face upwards, 
on the Middle of one of thefe Plates, before 
you fpread the Paper and Flannels on it, and the other 
Plate muft immediately be laid over them : Then, hold- 
ing all tight together, put them carefully and evenly into 
a little Prefs, made of two iron Planks about Five 
Inches and half long, One Inch and half wide, and 
half an Inch in Thicknefs (fhaped like what Book- 
binders ufe of a large Size in Wood), having a Cou- 
ple of long male Screws that run through them, 
with a turning female Screw on each to force the 
Planks together : And thefe female Screws muft 
have ftrong Shoulders, whereby to work them. But 
all this will be comprehended better by the Figure 
hereto annexed. See Tab. I. Fig. 4. 
Things being thus adjufted, hold the Prefs in 
your Left-hand, and, with a little Hammer, ftrike 
firft on the Shoulders of one Screw, and then on 
the Shoulders of the other, to bring the Planks to- 
gether parallel, and render the Preflure every-where 
alike j unlefs you find it requifite to give more Force 
to one Side than the other, which thefe two Screws 
will put in your own Power. 
The Prefs opens again, by a Stroke or two of 
the Hammer, the contrary Way, on the Shoulders of 
the Screws: and then you will find a true and fair 
Piflure neatly printed off,* which (if any Deficiencies 
appear 
