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fome of the moifture out of the thread as 

 it pafTed over them. This however, they 

 did but very impcrfecliy, and were beiides 

 found by their preiTure to give the thread 

 a fiat form, whereas its perfeclion is to be 

 as round as poffible. In Head therefore of 

 thefe puilies, they contrived to make the 

 tv/o threads crofs by twifling three or four 

 times round each other, between their paf- 

 fage from the ftop-wiresto the guide-wires, 

 vv'hich they called winding in crofs. This 

 method had great fuccefs ; the threads by 

 beins; thus wraDDed tv/o or three times 

 round one another became round and corn- 

 pad!. And the prelfure made by the crof- 

 fmg one another, added to the frequent 

 vibrations which were made at the angle, 

 where the two threads feparate in wind- 

 ing, caufed them to arrive at the reel well 

 drained of their moifture, and of a more 

 round form. 



. . Mr. Vaucanfo'ii obferves on this method, 

 that the threads are made to crofs by tv/if- 

 ting them over one another with their 

 fingers, which have no accurate fenfe of 

 feeling, by being continually employed in 

 the warm water 5 and that bv thcfe means 



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