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different fashion, as the space to be filled is no longer triangular. It 

 starts as before in the right hand lower corner, where it is knotted iuto 

 the becket, running across from the rim to the heel-bar; goes up to the 

 middle of the extra bar, round which it is hitched as already described, 

 then down to the left hand lower corner; up to the first beeket on the 

 left rim, across to the corresponding one on the right, and down to the 

 first beeket on the heel bar. This completes the first round (see dia 

 gram, Fig. 353(1). The second round goes up to the hind bar at the left 

 of the first, comes down only to the transverse strand of the first round 

 on the left, goes up to the beeket on the rim above the first, crosses to 

 the. right, and comes back to the transverse turn of the first rounds. 

 All these strands except the transverse one are on the left of the first 

 round. The third round follows the first, which brings all its strands 

 except the transverse one to the right of the first round (see. diagram, 



FIG. 352. Point netting of snowshoe heel : (a) first round; (b) first and second rounds. 



Fig. 3.&quot;&amp;gt;3/)). The successive odd rounds follow the first and the even 

 rounds the second, bringing the longitudinal strands alternately to the 

 right and left of the first round, until the ends of the hind bar are 

 reached that is to say, till the space outside of the first round is filled 

 each transverse strand coming above the preceding. This is done reg 

 ularly on the left shoe, the tenth round coming to the left end of the 

 bar, and the eleventh to the right. The twelfth round comes to the 

 beeket in the left hand upper corner, and crosses to the corresponding 

 beeket on the other side. It then follows the odd rounds, thus making 

 six strands, four longitudinal and two transverse, as in the point net 

 tings. All the remaining rounds follow this till the whole space is 

 filled in, which brings the end of the last round to the middle of the 

 heel bar, where it is knotted do the beeket. 



On the right shoe the maker seems to have made a mistake at the 

 eighth round, which obliged him to alter the order of the other strands 



