But he Files not athwart the sides of his _Punch_; for that might make the Foot-Line Roundish, by a Mounting and Dipping the Hand is prone to; as I shewed, _Vol._ I. _Fol._ 15, 16. But he holds his File so as the Length of it may hang over the Length of the Shank of the _Punch_, and dip upon it at the Face of the _Punch_, with a Bevel, or Angle, of about 100 Degrees with the Face of the _Punch_. This Angle you may measure with the _Beard-Gage_, described in _Plate_ 10. _Fig._ C. at _k_. Then Filing with the File in this Position, the Foot-Line will be made a true straight Line. But yet he examines it too by applying the _Liner_ to it; and holding the _Punch_ and _Liner_ thus to the Light; If the _Liner_ touches all the way on the Foot-Line, he concludes it true; if not, he mends it till it do. Then he uses his proper _Steel-Gage_, and places the Sholder of it against the Shank of the _Punch_ at the Foot-Line; and pressing the Sholder of the _Steel-Gage_ close against the Foot-Line, he, with the Tooth of the _Gage_ makes a Mark or Race on the side of the Face, opposite to the Foot-line: And that Mark or Race shall be from the Foot-Line, the Bounds of the Heighth of that Letter. Then on the Face he draws or marks the exact shape of the Letter, with a Pen and Ink if the Letter be large, or with a smooth blunted Point of a Needle if it be small: Then with sizable and proper shaped and Pointed Sculptors and Gravers, digs or Sculps out the Steel between the Stroaks or Marks he made on the Face of the _Punch_, and leaves the Marks standing on the Face. If the Letter be great he is thus to Sculp out, he then, with a Graver, Cuts along the Insides of the drawn or marked Stroaks, round about all the Hollow he is Cutting-in. And having Cut about all the sides of that Hollow, he Cuts other straight Lines within that Hollow, close to one another (either parallel or aslope, it matters not) till he have filled the Hollow with straight Lines; and then again, Cuts in the same Hollow, athwart those straight Lines, till he fill the Hollow with Thwart Lines also. Which straight Lines, and the Cuttings athwart them, is only to break the Body of Steel that lies on the Face of the _Punch_ where the Hollow must be; that so the Round-Back’d Sculptor may the easier Cut through the Body of the Steel, in the Hollow, on the Face of the _Punch_; even as I told you, _Numb._ 4. _Vol._ I. §. 2. the Fore-Plain makes way for the Fine Plains.