ABSTRACT
Correcting is the most disagreeable part of a compositor’s business, attended not only with loss of time, but great fatigue, from leaning over the stone, and is therefore extremely prejudicial to health. As it is necessary that correctors should understand languages, so it is requisite that they should be acquainted with the nature of printing, else they will be apt to expose themselves in objecting against several things that are done according to method and practice in printing. The Hebrew reads from the right to the left, which is the case with all other Oriental languages, except the Ethiopic and Armenian. The interest having abated which was excited by the first reading, a certain degree of listlessness imperceptibly steals upon the mind, which greatly endangers the correctness of a proof. It is always desirable that a reader should have been brought up a compositor.
