ztz THE CULTURE 

 worms were difturbed and interrupted dur- 

 ing their fpinning, either by fhaking, or 

 by cold weather rendering them torpid and 

 ina6live at their work, a thing at that 

 time very manifeil to the light. Or the 

 fmgle hairs may break by an improper re- 

 gulation of the heat in the water, when 

 it is not fufficient to make them wind off 

 eafy ; or when it is too great, and occafions 

 burrs which may ilop at fome of the wire^ 

 loops through which the thread runs j pods 

 alfo which have two worms inclofed will 

 perpetually break. 



The whole thread may alfo break, by 

 burrs flopping at the wire-loops, or by the 

 reel's being turned by jerks. It need not 

 however be knotted, but may be faftened 

 by laying the parts on one another, and 

 giving them a little twill j or the end which 

 broke may be carried up to the reel and 

 fo fixed as readily to find it again, and 

 may be reel'd on without uniting it to the 

 other, for all delay fhould be avoided. To 

 avoid the breaking occafioned by burrs, 

 the v\dre-loops fhould not be too fmall, but 

 fo wide as to let them eafily pafs, and if 

 the diflance between the reel and the pods 

 \v?re increafed y the thread then by having 



lengtl\ 



