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where the thread refts ; I don't know whe- 

 ther there can be a better method of effect- 

 ing this, than, after the angle of the groove 

 is formed in the turning-lath, to ufe a 

 piece of the fineft flqel-wire, as fmall as a 

 hair, ftretched on a bow, which being held 

 againft the angle of the groove, while the 

 lath turns the pully, may take off any 

 roughnefs, and alfo make the edge of the 

 angle, inffead of being quite fharp, fome- 

 what approach to a circular form, which 

 may be of ufe to the thread that runs in 

 it, which from puUies thus regulated will 

 at leaft not receive that fiat form which it 

 did in the old method of reeling over the 

 bobins. 



CHAP. X. 



Of dijhanding the filk from the reel, and tye^ 

 ing it up in fkaim : the ufe of the fofs-filk, 



WH E N a fufficient quantity of filk 

 is on the reel and you intend to 

 to take it off, there fhouid feem to be no 

 great room for much inflru<5lion. Yet 

 here I fhall take occafion to mention fomc 

 2 things 



