Reprefentatkns of Corns or Medals. 437 
Pencil into all the Lettering and hollow 
Places of the Wax Impreffion, which are 
the riling or projecting Parts of the Medal. 
This done, pals your bare Finger, or a Cloth 
drained upon it, gently but nimbly over the 
Surface, till you perceive the Ink perfectly 
cleared away, unlefs where the Letters are, 
and in the linking Parts 5 and after this, 
rubbing your Finger on aPiece of foft Whit¬ 
ing, pafs it lightly over the Surface ’till you 
are lure it is dry and clean. 
Have ready, foaked in Water, but the 
Water fqueezed a little out of them, fome 
Pieces of Writing Paper fomewhat larger 
than the Medal. Place one of thefe on the 
Wax Impreffion ; and on the Back of the 
Paper lay three or four Pieces of thick Flan¬ 
nel about the Size thereof. 
I ffiould premife, that you mud have a 
Couple of flat fmootb Iron Plates, about two 
Inches Square, and of a Thicknefs not to 
bend. The Wax Impreffion mud 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 mud 
immediately be laid over them. Then, hold¬ 
ing them all tight together, put them care¬ 
fully and evenly into a little Prefs, made of 
two Iron Planks about five Inches and a half 
long, one Inch and a half wide, and half an 
Inch in Thicknefs; having a Couple of male 
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