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I. and about a foot diftant from the cauU 

 di'on. 



The bar M N. wliich fupports the guide-. 

 wheel I. and guide-flick E. G. is two foot 

 dillant from the end C. of the itop-wires, 

 the guide-wires are fo long as not to let 

 the filk-thread make an angle at the m. 



The axle of the reel K L. is three foot 

 dif}-ant from the guide-flick. 



The reel's diameter, viz. the length of 

 the crofs-bars about two foot for fine warp, 

 for woof it is often four or five foot 3 but 

 this is not reel'd in crofs. 



The guide-wires, E. E. are at the fame 

 diflance from each other as the flop-wires, 

 viz, about fix inches. 



The diameter of the guide- wheel's groove 

 is to the diameter of the fmall wheel's ' 

 groove, as 74, to 45 j for ranging the filk 

 in the beft manner on the reel -, the fize 

 of thefe wheels fhould enlarge with the 

 reel's diameter, but the proportions fliould 

 be kept. The bench mufl alfo be lengthen-, 

 ed when the reel is made large. 



The Furnace A. is round, or oval, with 

 a fire hole, B. and it vv^ould alfo be the bet- 

 ter of a flue to carry of the fnioak. 



The 



