234 THE CULTURE 

 fmoak. A thin copper cauWipn of the 

 fame breadth with the clear of the furnace, 

 and about four or five inches in depth, is 

 fixed upon its upper part : this contains the 

 water in which the pods are winded off, 

 its fhape may be oval, the better to con- 

 tain two parcels of pods. 



The ends of as many pods as are thought 

 proper, being united, are paiTed through 

 a loop of wire. c. which I fhall call the 

 flop-wire, fixed in the end of a rod which 

 projedls about a foot from the bench of 

 the reel. Its ufe is to flop the pods, and 

 hinder their being drav/n farther towards 

 the reel -, and this wire projeding over the 

 copper, caufes any of the pods which 

 chance to leap out of the water to fall di- 

 rectly doi;vn again. It is ufaally made by 

 giving the wire a turn like one round of a 

 bottle-fcrew, making the end come a little 

 acrofs. By this method the filk-thread 

 eafily flides into the loop, which, if inflead 

 of this contrivance it were a ring, would 

 give trouble in paffing the thread through 5 

 this vare is fixed into the end of a fmall 

 flick, which fliould project about a foot 

 from the front of the fland. P. (i_R. S. 

 which fupports the reel and the loop 



fhould 



