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place, fince this would fo glue the moift 

 thread together, that it could not afterwards 

 be feparated. 



The guide-flick receives its motion from 

 a wheel marked I. which formerly turned 

 on a pin fixed in the fide of the reel's bench, 

 but that fit nation is now changed ; its di- 

 ameter is from eight to ten inches, ac- 

 cording to the fize of the reel you ufe ; it 

 has holes nearer or farther from its center 

 to fhift the pin which goes into the guide- 

 ftick, and fo fprcad the filk lefs or more 

 upon the reel. This is a round pin, and 

 is received into a round hole in the end of 

 the guide-ftick F. fo loofe, as to allow the 

 wheel to turn freely. It is turned by means 

 of a band which palFes over another wheel 

 K. fixed to the axle of the reel. The befl 

 proportion of this wheel K. to the guide 

 wheel I. for diftributing the thread on the 

 reel, is as twenty two and an half to thirty 

 feven. The wheel I. being put in motion 

 by the turning of the reel, doth in each 

 revolution make the guide-flick F. G. go 

 and return, its end G. being round and 

 Aiding forward and backward in a hole 

 which is made in a piece of wood L. The 

 pin on which the guide-flick moves mufl 



be 



