174 THE CULTURE 

 fkin compofed in rings, and the worm's 

 Ikin which it threw off lies in the ball 

 with it. 



In this form it continues, according ta 

 the different heat of the cUmate, from fif- 

 teen to thirty days ; in Engla?id\t is thirty^ 

 reckoning from the time of its beginning 

 to fpin 5 it then throws off the grub's fkin, 

 which may be called the fixth moult, and 

 has now the compleat form of a large 

 white moth, with four wings, two black 

 eyes, and two horns or antlers branching 

 fideways, like two very fmall black fea- 

 thers. It then immediately begins to moift-* 

 en the end of its filkball with a clear liquor 

 which it throws out of its mouth; and 

 thus foftening the gumminefs of the filk, 

 it, by frequent motions of its head, loofens 

 the texture of the filk, but doth not break 

 it, and thus widens a paffage by which it 

 comes forth in the form of a moth, as de- 

 fcribed above. 



Though the filk is not broken, yet the 

 balls which are thus pierced by the moth 

 can never be reeled off, on account of the 

 fuzzy burr of filk which is raifed and 

 loofened at the hole where the moth comes 

 out, which immediately entangles the 



threads 



