Having cut the _Copper-Rods_, into fit Lengths with a Cold _Chissel_, He files the end that is to stand upon the _Stool_ of the _Mold_ exactly square, and the Right-side of the _Matrice_, that stands against the _Carriage_ and _Body_, also exactly Square and smooth upon the _Using-File_. Then he places the filed end, or _Bottom_ upon the _Stool_, with the _Face_ of the _Matrice_ towards the _Carriage_ and _Body_, and the Right-side of the _Matrice_, close against the _Register_: Then if the _Punch_ to be sunck be an ascending Letter. He with a fine pointed _Needle_, makes a small Race by the upper-side of the _Carriage_ upon the _Face_ of the _Matrice_, and that Race is a mark for him, to set the top of the Ascending _Letter_ at, when he _Sinks_ it into the _Matrice_: So that then placing the _Punch_ upright upon the middle of the Thickness of the _Matrice_, the _Matrice_ lying solid on the _Stake_: He with the _Face_ of an _Hammer_ sizable to the bigness of his _Punch_, cautiously knocks upon the _Hammer-end_ of the _Punch_, with reiterated Blows, till he have driven the _Punch_ deep enough into the _Matrice_. But if it be a short _Letter_, or a Descending _Letter_, and not Ascending also: Then he elects any _Cast-Letter_ of the Thickness of the _Beard_, (as _Founders_ and _Printers_ call it) For which Explanation see the Table, and he lays that _Letter_ upon the _Surface_ of the _Carriage_, and then placing the _Bottom_ of the _Matrice_ to be _Sunk_ as before, on the _Stool_, and against the _Register_, He draws with a _Needle_ as before, a race above the _Surface_ of that _Letter_, against the _Face_ of the _Matrice_, and that race is a Mark for him to place the _Head_ of the _Letter_ by. Then managing the _Punch_ and _Hammer_ as before was shewed, he _Sinks_ the _Punch_ into the _Matrice_. But here arises a Question, _viz._ How deep the _Punches_ are to be _Sunk_ into the _Matrices_? The Answer is, a Thick _Space_ deep, though deeper even to an n would be yet better: Because the deeper the _Punches_ are _Sunk_, the lower does the _Beards_ stand below the _Face_, and those _Beards_ when the _Cast-Letter_ comes into the _Printers_ Hands to be used, are the less subject to _Print_, as too oft they do both at _Head_ or _Foot_ of a _Page_, than when they lie so high that the softness of the _Blankets_, and Hardness of a _Pull_, or else carelesness of Running the _Carriage_ of the _Press_ to a considered Mark they would be. But they are seldom _Sunk_ any deeper then a thick Space: and the reason is, because the breaking or battering the _Face_ of the _Punch_ should not be too much hazarded.