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and turns it by a little handle k. when 

 when the threads are to be croffed. 



Now the two filk-threads after having 

 been pafTed thro' the loops of the flop- 

 wires, c. c. infi:ead of going over the bo- 

 bins, or puilies, are made to pafs over two 

 little hooks of brafs wire, d. d. placed oppoiite 

 to each other on the infide of this wooden 

 ring. From whence they go each thro* 

 its own guide-wire, and fo to the reel. 



And now, by giving the wheel J. over 

 which the band paiTes tv/o, three, or more 

 turns i the wooden ring, over which the 

 fame band paffes, is turned the fame num- 

 ber of times, and fo many times are the 

 filk-threads croffed over one another, and 

 that in two places, viz, before they arrive 

 at the wooden ring, and after they pafs 

 thro' it. By this double eroding, or twif- 

 tlng over each other, the filk-threads in 

 'i'Mihg, are as it were, wrung and fqueef- 

 ed J and the gummy moiilure, wd^ich they 

 receiv*d in the kettle, drained and preiied 

 '^uti^^fo that they arrive at tlie reel much 

 dryer than they otherwile would do ; and 

 from' the preffure which they undergo at the 

 croliings are made more firm, compacSV, 



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