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five fuch pods are reeled together, a frefli 

 end will be wanted at every hundred foot 

 that are reeled; if ten are reeled together, 

 one will be wanted at every fifty foot ; if 

 fixteen together, then at thirty one foot, 

 and fo on. Nor doth it make any dif- 

 ference v/hether twenty pods form only 

 one thread, or whether they are divided fo 

 that each five forms a diirin£l thread, in 

 both cafes, if they are reeled at once upon 

 the fame reel, they will require nearly the 

 fame difbatch to fupply frefh ends ; and 

 this points out a method of employing fpin- 

 ners according to their different Ikill, for 

 if one fpinner can fupply two threads each 

 of ten pods, then another fpinner who 

 can fupply ends only half fo faft, can on- 

 ly attend two threads each of five pods, or 

 one of ten pods. 



The feldomer that pods end or break, the 

 greater number of them can one fpinner 

 attend, vvhich fliews the advantage of large 

 and ibund pods, and of every artifice which 

 can hinder either the breaking of the fingle 

 hairs, or of the whole thread. 



The breaking of the fingle hairs is prin- 

 cipally owing, either to bad filk-pods, rjiz. 

 being ill formed, as they will be when the 

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