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from the other, in the manner which you 

 fee dehneated in the figure. 



The foregoing defcriptions mentions the 

 manner in which the filk-reel is at prefent 

 made and ufed, but the plate which re- 

 prefents it fhows it with the new improve- 

 ments made lately by Mr. Vaucanfony and 

 defcribed in the memoirs of the academy 

 of fciences at Paris, but without giving 

 any figures of the defcription. The rea- 

 fon and foundation of thefe improvements ■ 

 are confidered more particularly in the fol- J 

 lowing chapter. 



C H A P. III. 



7be improvejnents cf the [ilk-red^ Giui the 

 manne?' of reeling. 



7 I T H regard to the motion of the 



guide-flick, Mr. Vaiicanfon obferves 

 that it was found that the band which paf- 

 fes over the tv/o little wheels K. I. by be- 

 ing varioully flretched by the v/eather, in- 

 equalities of the wheels, ^c. could not 

 make the guide-lfick F. G. move in fo uni- 

 form a manner as always to difpofe the 



difierent 



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