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< of paper is formed; then, taking off the extenfors, 
BB, of the fcreen, he rolls inwards, for about an 
: inch, the upper part of the fcreen and fheet, by 
which means, fo much of the fheet will be fepa- 
; rated from the fcreen ; the fcreen is then inverted, 
and the already feparated end of the paper is laid 
» upon the mat, in Fig. 5, and the fcreen is gently 
< railed from the paper. — In this manner lie forms 
f fheet after fheet, until he has made 250, his day’s 
talk, laying them all upon the firft fheet, in a re- 
gular manner ; then he covers the whole with a 
i coarfe cloth of the fun-plant, equal in fize with 
the paper; above this he lays a thick plank, fome- 
what larger than the paper. This, by its weight, 
prefTes out the water from the wet fheets ; to affifl 
which, the operator fits upon it for fome time. 
Then the heap is fet to one fide until morning, 
when the fheets are taken up, one by one, and 
-fpread with the brufh, Fig. 6, upon the clean 
plaflered walls of the houle ; as they dry, they 
readily peel off, and are fpread upon a clean mat 1 
or cloth, and with a piece of blanket, dipped in 
4 thin rice pafle water, rubbed all over, and imme- 
% diately hungup, to dry, upon firings run acrofs the 
houfe for this purpofe. When fufficiently dried, 
they are cut into a quadrangular form, according 
to a flandard fheet, which ferves as a guide to the 
knife, Fig. 7, From this operation, they are 
« carried to another perfon, who rubs every fheet 
fmooth with a globular piece of moorflone gra- 
-nite, which he holds in both hands. Then he 
folds the fheets for fale. The finer paper is polifh- 
ed a fecond time, All the cuttings, and damaged 
fheets 
