G The Face. _a a_, _b b_ The Thickness. _a b_, _a b_ The Heighth. _a c_, _b c_, _b c_ The Length of the Shank, about an Inch and three quarters long. _c c c_ The Hammer-End. This is no strict Length for the Shank, but a convenient Length; for should the Letter Cut on the Face be small, and consequently, the Shank so too, and the Shank much longer, and it (as seldom it is) not Temper’d in the middle, it might, with Punching into Copper, bow in the middle, either with the weight of the Hammer, or with light reiterated Blows: And should it be much shorter, there might perhaps Finger-room be wanting to manage and command it while it is Punching into the Copper. But this Length is long enough for the biggest Letters, and short enough for the smallest Letters. The Heighth and Thickness cannot be assign’d in general, because of the diversity of Bodies, and Thickness of Letters: Besides, some Letters must be Cut on a broad Face of Steel, though, when it is Cut, it is of the same Body; as all Letters are, to which _Counter-Punches_ are used; because the Striking the _Counter-Punch_ into the Face of the _Punch_ will, if it have not strength enough to contain it, break or crack one or more sides of the _Punch_, and so spoil it. But if the Letter be wholly to be Cut, and not Counter-Punch’d, as I shall hereafter hint in general what Letters are not, then the Face of the _Punch_ need be no bigger, or, at least, but a small matter bigger than the Letter that is to be cut upon it. Now, If the Letter be to be Counter-punch’d, the Face of the _Punch_ ought to be about twice the Heighth, and twice the Thickness of the Face of the _Counter-Punch_; that so, when the _Counter-Punch_ is struck just on the middle of the Face of the _Punch_, a convenient Substance, and consequently, Strength of Steel on all its Sides may be contained to resist the Delitation, that the Sholder or Beard of the _Counter-Punch_ sinking into it, would else make. If the _Letter-Cutter_ be to Cut a whole Set of _Punches_ of the same Body of _Roman_ and _Italica_, he provides about 240 or 260 of these _Punches_, because so many will be used in the _Roman_ and _Italica_ _Capitals_ and _Lower-Case_, _Double-Letters_, _Swash-Letters_, _Accented Letters_, _Figures_, _Points_, _&c._ But this number of _Punches_ are to have several Heighths and Thicknesses, though the Letters to be Cut on them are all of the same Body. What Heighth and Thickness is, I have shewed before in this §, but not what Body is; therefore I shall here explain it. By Body is meant, in _Letter-Cutters_, _Founders_ and _Printers_ Language, the Side of the Space contained between the Top and Bottom Line of a Long Letter. As in the Draft of Letters, the divided Line on the Left-Hand of A is divided into forty and two equal Parts; and that Length is the Body, thus: J being an Ascending and Descending Letter, _viz._ a long Letter, stands upon forty-two Parts, and therefore fills the whole Body.