50 APPARATUS. 



is used in a variety of ways. The double-diamond 

 knot is made with the strands opened out again, 

 following the lead of the single knot through two 

 single bights, the ends coming out at the top of 

 the knot, and leading the last strand through two 

 double bights, then, by laying up the rope again 

 as before, to where the next knot is to be made, 

 it will appear like the figure Plate VIII, fig. 6. 



Plate VII, fig. 3, the buoy-rope knot, is made 

 by unlaying the strands of the cable-laid rope, and 

 also one of the small strands out of each large one ; 

 laying the large ones again as before, and leaving 

 the small ones out ; then single and double wall the 

 small strands round the rope ; worm them along 

 the divisions, and stop their ends with spun yarn. 



Plate VIII, fig. 4, the rolling hitch, is made in 

 the following manner. With the end of a rope a 

 take two round turns over the spar at c, then pass 

 two half-hitches round the standing part b, and it 

 is finished ; the end may be stopped to the stand- 

 ing part. 



Plate VII, fig. 7 is the overhand or fgurc-of- 

 eight knot, and is made by taking the end of a 

 rope a round the standing part b, under its own 

 part d, and through the bight c. 



