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win endanger the breaking of the thread, 

 filling it alfo with lumps and inequaU- 

 ties. 



On the other hand, if the water is jufl 

 properly warm for the foft pod, fo as not 

 to occafion the above inconveniency, it 

 will then not be hot enough for the hard 

 pod, fo that its thread will not be difuni- 

 ted from it, without fome llretch and vio- 

 lence endangering its breaking, and giv- 

 ing the trouble of adding a freih pod. 

 And in both cafes the fnigle hairs of the 

 filk-pods, being unequally ftretched in reel- 

 ing, will make the combin'd thread the 

 weaker, and alfo lefs even, and glofly, 

 fmce the fingle hair of that pod which was 

 moil ftretched by the reel will, upon dif- 

 banding,' contra6l itfelf more than the 

 other, and be feparated from it in fome 

 places, V J 5,; 



On thefe 'accounts, having firil feparated 

 the double pods, and alfo thole whicii con* 

 tain nothing but flofs, with any others, 

 which, being iraperfecfly formed, cannot 

 be reeled ; fort the peifetl pods into three 

 kinds, and do this at the time that you 

 are ftripping off the fiols, which being re- 

 moved, you can readily perceive their dif- 

 ferent 



