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of the Ikain will be apt to catch and 

 break when you are difbanding it from the 

 reel. 



The axle of the reel turns in two 

 grooves, made in two pieces of wood x. x. 

 fixed in two oppofite fides of the bench, 

 by means of the wince or handle, L. the 

 axle is rounded and reduced to about an 

 inch and an half diameter, at the parts 

 which lie in the grooves 3 in which it is 

 kept by two wire pins, w. w. one of which 

 fmks a little into a fmall groove turned in 

 the axle itfelf, by which means it is kept 

 very fteady, or it may be kept fteady by 

 two fhoulders, if they are exaclly at the 

 diftance of the two pieces of wood which 

 fupport the axle. 



In this defcription of the reel I have, 

 for brevity's fake, only mentioned one lilk- 

 thread ; but as two may be reeled at once 

 upon different parts of the reel according 

 to the expertnefs of the fpinner, which is 

 the perfon who fupplies frefli ends when 

 any of the pods break, or are winded off, 

 therefore you are to fuppofe the other 

 thread condu6led in the fame manner, as 

 that already defcribed thro' the other ftop- 

 wire, C, &c. at about fix inches diffance 



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