_g g g g_ The _Bench_ on which the _Dressing-Blocks_ are placed, are about sixteen Inches broad, and two Foot ten Inches high from the Floor. The _Bench_ hath its farther Side, and both ends, railed about with slit Deal about two Inches high, that the _Hook_, the _Knife_, and _Plow_, &c. fall not off when the Workman is at Work. The _Blocks_ are described in _Plate 21_ at a b: They are made of hard Wood. These _Blocks_ are six and twenty Inches long, and each two Inches square. They are _Male_ and _Female_, a the _Male_, b the _Female_: Through the whole Length of the _Male-Block_ runs a _Tongue_ as at _a b_, and a _Groove_ as at _c d_, for the _Tongue_ of the _Plow_ to run in; This _Tongue_ is about half an Inch thick, and stands out square from the upper and under-sides of the _Block_. About three Inches within the ends of the _Block_ is placed a _Knot_ as at _c c_: These _Knots_ are small square pieces of _Box-wood_, the one above, and the other below the _Tongue_. The _Female- Block_ is such another _Block_ as the _Male-Block_, only, instead of a _Tongue_ running through the length of it a _Groove_ is made to receive the _Tongue_ of the _Male-Block_, and the _Knots_ in this _Block_ are made at the contrary ends, that when the _Face_ of a _Stick_ of _Letter_ is placed on the _Tongue_ the _Knot_ in the _Male-Block_ stops the _Stick_ of _Letter_ from sliding forwards, while the other _Knot_ in the _Female-Block_ at the other end, by the knocking of a _Mallet_ on the end of the _Block_ forces the _Letter_ between the _Blocks_ forwards, and so the whole _Stick_ of _Letters_ between these two _Knots_ are screwzed together, and by the _Wedge_ _e f_ in _Plate 21_ (also with the force of a _Mallet_) _Wedges_ the two _Blocks_ and the _Stick_ of _Letter_ in them also tight, and close between the sides of the two _Blocks_; that afterwards the _Plow_ may more certainly do its Office upon the _Foot_ of the _Letter_; as shall be shewed hereafter.1 ¶. 3. _Of the_ Dressing-Hook. The _Dressing-Hook_ is described in _Plate 21_ at c. This is a long square _Rod_ of _Iron_, about two Foot long and a _Great-Primmer_ square: Its end _a_ is about a _two-Lin’d-English_ thick, and hath a small _Return_ piece of _Iron_ made square to the under-side of the _Rod_, that when the whole _Dressing-Hook_ is laid along a _Stick_ of _Letter_, this _Return piece_ or _Hook_ may, when the _Rod_ is drawn with the _Ball_ of the Thumb, by the _Knot_ on the upper-side of it at c, draw all the _Letter_ in the _Stick_ tight and close up together, that the _Stick_ of _Letter_ may be _Scraped_, as shall be shewed. ¶. 4. _Of the_ Dressing-Knife.