PREFACE, 
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couragement, having made as many 
as would compose a page of my in¬ 
tended publication. 
The way I went to work was as 
follows: — 
I first cast the metal into small 
bars, then reduced it, by the process 
of beating, to the exact size of the 
type, and, having adjusted it to the 
proper length, I cut out, and formed 
the letter, first with my pen-knife, 
finishing the finer parts of it with a 
very small instrument —parva cubula 
cerclonis. In forming the letter, I was 
guided principally, by examining the 
impression of types of the same size 
on a printed book. In this manner I 
“ manufactured ” about 700. 
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