5. Fat Stroaks. The Stem or broad Stroak in a Letter is called Fat; as the Right Hand Stroak in A, and part of the great Arch in B, are Fat Stroaks.
6. Lean Stroaks, are the narrow fine Stroaks in a Letter; as the Left-Hand Stroak of A, and the Right Hand Stroak of V are Lean.
7. Beak of Letters, is the fine Stroak or Touch that stands on the Left-Hand of the Stem, either in the Top-Line, as b d h, &c. or in the Head-Line, as i, m, n, &c. Yet f, g, , f, g, [s] have Beaks on the Right Hand of the Stem.
8. Tails of Letters, is a Stroak proceeding from the Right-Hand Side of the Stem, in the Foot-Line; as a d t u: and most Italick Lower-Case Letters have Tails: As also have most Swash-Letters. But several of their Tails reach down to the Bottom-Line.
9. Swash-Letters are Italick Capitals; as you see in Plate 15.
Thus much of Letter-Cutting. The next Exercises shall (God willing) be upon Making Matrices, Making Molds, Casting and Dressing of Letters, &c.
FINIS.
ADVERTISEMENT.
NUmb. 4. of the Second Volumne of Collections of Letters for Improvement of Husbandry and Trade, is now extant; being Enquiries relating to Husbandry and Trade: drawn up by the Learned Robert Plot, L. L. D. Keeper of the Ashmolean Musæum, and Professor of Chymistry in the University of Oxford, and Secretary of the Royal Society of London. An Account of the manner of making Brunswick-Mum. An Account of a great Improvement of Mossy Land by Burning and Liming; from Mr. Adam Martindale of Cheshire.