Hitherto a Man (nay, a Boy) might officiate all this Work; But now comes Labour would make _Hercules_ sweat. Now they fall to pulling down so much of the side of the open _Furnance_ as stands above the Mouth of that _Melting-Pot_ next the _Iron-Pot_, And having a thick strong _Iron Ladle_, whose _Handle_ is about two Yards long, and the _Ladle_ big enough to hold about ten Pounds of _Lead_, and this _Ladle_ Red-hot that it chill not the _Mettal_, they now I say with this _Ladle_ fall to clearing this first _Melting-Pot_ of all the Coals or filth that lie on the top of the Melted _Mettal_: while another Man at the same time stands provided with a long strong round _Iron Stirring Poot_; the _Handle_ of which _Stirring Poot_ is also about two Yards long or more, and the _Poot_ it self almost twice the length of the depth of the Melting _Pot_. This _Poot_ is nothing but a piece of the same _Iron_ turned to a square with the Handle: And this _Poot_ is also in a readiness heated Red-hot. Now one Man with the _Ladle_ _Lades_ the _Lead_ out of the _Iron-Pot_ into the Melting _Pot_, while the other Man with the _Poot_ stirs and Labours the _Lead_ and _Mettal_ in the Melting _Pot_ together till they think the _Lead_ and _Mettal_ in the Melting _Pot_ be well incorporated: And thus they continue _Lading_ and _Stirring_ till they have near filled the Melting _Pot_. Then they go to another next _Melting-Pot_, and successively to all, and Lade and stir _Lead_ into them as they did into the first. Which done the _Mettal_ is made: And they pull down the _Walls_ of the _Open Furnance_, and rake away the Fire that the _Mettal_ may cool in the _Pots_. Now (according to Custom) is Half a Pint of Sack mingled with Sallad Oyl, provided for each Workman to Drink; intended for an Antidote against the Poysonous Fumes of the _Antimony_, and to restore the Spirits that so Violent a Fire and Hard Labour may have exhausted. [Illustration: _Plate 20._ ] ¶. 3. _Of_ Letter-Ladles. _Letter-Ladles_ differ nothing from other common _Ladles_, save in the size: Yet I have given you a Draft of one in Plate 20 at A. Of these the _Caster_ has many at Hand, and many of several sizes that he may successively chuse one to fit the several sizes of _Letters_ he has to _Cast_; as well in _Bodies_ as in _Thicknesses_. §. XIX. ¶. 1. _Of_ Casting, Breaking, Rubbing, Kerning, _and setting up of_ Letters.