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and careful notes and measurements will often enable one to restore 
contour to a mould which has suffered some pressure in transport. In a 
properly-made mould the detail of carving is never lost, unless the paper 
itself is destroyed. 
A shallow tin bath (or two made to fit inside one another), large 
enough to hold an open sheet of paper, is useful for soaking the paper in. 
Twenty sheets or more may be placed in the water at once, and may be 
left there without harm for an hour or more; but a few minutes’ soaking 
is quite enough. 
I have several times had to mould in America the whole of a mono¬ 
lithic monument—one as much as twenty-five feet in height—covered 
with carving and hieroglyphic inscription, and have been perfectly 
successful in reproducing it in plaster in England. Each face would be 
