No. 3. An Impression from an Engraving on Wood.

No. 4. An Impression from an Electrotype Copy of No. 3.

No. 5. An Impression from a Polytype Copy of No. 3.

No. 6. An Impression from an Electrotype Copy of a Page of Diamond Types.

The Hebrew nation, when viewed In contrast with the rest of the ancient world, presents a spectacle not less remarkable for the pure simplicity of its theology. than for the singularity of its puiitical constitution. The familiarity with their history, which we acquire in early infancy, weakens the force of the impression which the annals and civii government of the Hebrews muat infallibly excite in a philosophical mind, if the account of them were conveyed to us at a period of maturer judgment, and viewed in sober comparison with the other records of antiquity. From the midst of darkness, error, and dispute: from a scene of licention worship and degrading superstitions, we turn to ar unhesitating faith, and a sublime devotion: al around is a desert, a wilderness and gloom; from the centre of which, the Hebrew polity rises before us, set up like a pillar to record the creation of the world, and the God who demands the homage of his creatures.

This, in fact, was the declared intention of that po.ty. It is founded expressly on the principle, that, in the beginning of the system to which the human race be Jongs, the world was created by one independent Being: who had selected the Hebrews to commemorate the original of the universe, and to perpetuate the importan truth, that its Author, seen only by his works, is to be worshipped without material or visible representation, as the Creator and Governor of the world.

To prove that the main object of the consecration of the Hebrews, was to perpetuate the records of the crea tion, we need go no further than the decalogue. The laws of the first table assert the existence and unit of God declare the reverence in which his name is to be held; and refute the belief, and condemn the practice, of those nations who think that he, the Creator, "an be properly represented under any visible form taken from the things he has made. Blessings are promised to he Hebrews, if they adhere to his prescribed worenip, and severe punishment is entailed upon them, if they abjure his authority, and prove unfaithful to the trust reposer

in them.

The declarations are followed up by a law, appointing One day in teven for the worship of God, and speci.ying the reason of that appropriation. It ordains, that as the work of the creation, detailed in Genesis, employe aix auccessive days, so six successive days should be allotted by the people who possessed the history of the creation, to the ordinary labours and business of life: but that every seventh day should be set apart and disinguished from the rest, should be employed in no secular avocations, but hold sacred for the commemo. ratton of chat great event, and of the day when the Creator having seen the world fi: fo: the reception and support of the creatures to whose use it was destined, ordered them to increase and multiply, and enjoy the goods; Aubitativa. — Sumner's Records of the Creation.

GARTER. In wooden presses, two flat pieces of iron with a semicircle cut in one end of each, and a projecting part at the other ends; in the projecting parts there is a hole at each end, those in the front piece for a screw to go through, and those in the back piece are tapped to receive

a screw.

The hose has a horizontal mortise through it, exactly at the groove in the spindle this mortise is to receive the garter, which, when driven close up from back and front, clasps the spindle in the groove by means of its semicircular ends, which are made to fit into this groove; and the two parts are kept firmly together by the screws that pass through the projecting ends on two sides of the hose.

Its use is to lift up the platen on the return of the bar, to admit the carriage to be run in and out.

GATHER BOOKS. Gathering of books is to take one sheet off every heap, beginning at the last sheet first, viz. at the left hand end of the range. -M. We now reverse the heaps, and place the first signature where they used to place the last; they then gathered, placing each sheet upon the other: we now gather under each sheet, which is a much quicker way. See GATHERING.

GATHER CORRECTIONS. See CORRECTIONS.

GATHERING. In making the printed sheets of a work up into copies in the warehouse for delivery, a number of them in orderly succession are folded together, which is called a gathering; a volume may be complete in one gathering, or it may consist of two, three, four, or more. When there are more than one gathering in a volume, the warehouseman endeavours to have the number of sheets in each nearly equal; and he very rarely puts less than ten, or more than fifteen, in one gathering. He lays down upon the gathering table a heap of each signature, commencing with B, or whatever signature the body of the work may begin with, following each other in regular order, according to the letters of the alphabet, and as many as he intends to include in the first gathering, with the first page of each to the front of the table. If it be a long number, he seldom lays down more than a bundle of each signature at once, that the top sheets may not be higher than the boys can conveniently reach.

The first signature is placed at the extreme end of the table to the left hand, that if there be any space more than is actually wanted upon the table, it may be at the end where the gathering concludes, to allow the boys to knock up the sheets without crowding each other.

In commencing gathering it is necessary that the boys should have clean hands, otherwise they will dirty many sheets with the end of the right thumb.

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A boy wets the end of his right thumb with the tip of his tongue, and pushes up with it the right hand corner of the first sheet, the fingers of his left hand being laid upon the sheet to prevent its slipping away, and he catches it up with the thumb of his left hand underneath it, and draws upon the next heap; he does the same by this, and so continues drawing the accumulating sheets in his left hand over the successive heaps, and taking one from each, till he gets to the end; he then knocks this gathering up even at the ends and sides, and lays it down at the end of the table, which being what is styled a horse-shoe table, he has only to turn himself round, when he is again facing the first signature, to recommence the operation, always knocking up his gathering, and laying it evenly upon the other, till it accumulates to a pile.

In the regular routine of business, where despatch is necessary, three