268 THE CULTURE 



the forepart of the reel's frame, jufl be- 

 tween the two flop-wu'es. At the top of 

 the pole let an ivory pully of about one 

 inch diameler turn upon a fmooth wire- 

 phi fixed in the iide of the pole ; and let 

 another puHy of the fame kind be placed 

 in the fame fituation ne.ir the bottom of 

 the pole. Thefe pullles iTioald have a 

 groove formed to the angle of an equila- 

 teral ti'iangle and fmoothly polifiied '-, they 

 Ihould alfo be formed with a liti^s round 

 navel at their center to keep their Jiat from 

 rubbing againil the pole. The pole ftands 

 in a round hole, and can be dra/vn out as 

 occaiion requires, or turn'd awry. See Plate 

 II. Fig. III. 



Now when the filk-pods are to -be reel- 

 ed, the thread after having paiTed the flop- 

 wire is conda6led over the upper pully, 

 then under the lower one, from hence to the 

 guide-wire and then to the reel. By this 

 method the len2;th of the thread from the 

 cauldron to the reel may be increafed to 

 what degree you think proper, viz. either 

 by having a longer pole, or by having two 

 pullies above and two below, and fo mak- 

 ing the thread pafs up and down over 

 them. By thefe means it may have fifteen 

 or twenty foot fpace to run thro*, and 



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