ying: where this
cannot be done, and the task must be deputed, the Manuscript should, in
all cases, be considered the Authority, and no departure be made from
it, except as may have been directed, or in extreme cases.

Corrections of the Press should be marked clearly; and this can never be
done so satisfactorily, both to the Corrector and Printer, as by
employing those Typographical Marks, which, from having been universally
adopted, are, in consequence, understood by all persons connected with
the Press.--The following Pages will exemplify these: First, the Proof
corrected; Secondly, the Proof Revised.

_Proof Corrected._

[Illustration: This page is a specimen of Lithographic Printing. The
impression from the Type being first taken on Paper, in Lithographic
Ink, the Corrections then added with the Pen, and the whole transferred
to the Stone from which the Page is printed.]

_Proof Revised._

[Illustration: In all the more celebrated nations of the ancient world,
we find established those twin elements of belief, by which religion
harmonizes and directs the social relations of life, viz. a faith in a
future state, and in the providence of Superior Powers, who, surveying
as Judges the affairs of earth, punish the wicked, and reward the good.

It has been plausibly conjectured, that the fables of Elysium, the slow
Cocytus, and the gloomy Hades, were either invented or allegorized from
the names of Egyptian places. Diodorus assures us that by the vast
catacombs of Egypt, the dismal mansions of the dead--were the temple and
stream, both called Cocytus, the _foul_ canal of Acheron, and the
Elysian plains; and according to the same equivocal authority, the body
of the dead was wafted across the waters by a pilot, termed Charon in
the Egyptian tongue. But previous to the embarkation, appointed judges
on the MARGIN of the ACHERON listened to whatever accusations were
preferred by the living against the deceased; and if convinced of his
mis-deeds, deprived him of the rights of Sepulture.--_Athens, by Sir
Lytton Bulwer_, vol. i. p. 52.]

_Explanation of the Typographical Marks._

No. 1, is used to correct a _wrong letter_, drawing a line down through
it, and placing the right letter before a corresponding stroke in the
margin; _a wrong word_ is corrected by drawing a line across it, as in
No. 2, and writing the proper word in the margin.

_Where any thing has been omitted_, or is wished to be inserted, a Caret
is mar