MURDOCH. |} SNOWSHOES. 347 
different fashion, as the space to be filled is no longer triangular. It 
starts as before in the right hand lower corner, where it is knotted into 
the becket, running across from the rim to the heel-bar; goes up to the 
middle of the extra bar, round which it is hitched as already described, 
then down to the left hand lower corner; up to the first becket on the 
left rim, across to the corresponding one on the right, and down to the 
first becket on the heel bar. This completes the first round (see dia- 
gram, Fig. 353a). The second round goes up to the hind bar at the left 
of the first, comes down only to the transverse strand of the first round 
on the left, goes up to the becket on the rim above the first, crosses to 
the right, and comes back to the transverse turn of the first rounds. 
All these strands except the transverse one are on the left of the first 
round. The third round follows the first, which brings all its strands 
except the transverse one to the right of the first round (see diagram, 
Fie. 352.—Point netting of snowshoe heel: (a) first round; (6) first and second rounds. 
Fig. 353)). The successive odd rounds follow the first and the even 
rounds the second, bringing the longitudinal strands alternately to the 
right and left of the first round, until the ends of the hind bar are 
reached—that is to say, till the space outside of the first round is filled— 
each transverse strand coming above the preceding. This is done reg- 
ularly on the left shoe, the tenth round coming to the left end of the 
bar, and the eleventh to the right. The twelfth round comes to the 
becket in the left hand upper corner, and crosses to the corresponding 
becket on the other side. It then follows the odd rounds, thus making 
six strands, four longitudinal and two transverse, as in the point net- 
tings. All the remaining rounds follow this till the whole space is 
filled in, which brings the end of the last round to the middle of the 
heel bar, where it is knotted do the becket. 
On the right shoe the maker seems to have made a mistake at the 
eighth round, which obliged him to alter the order of the other strands 
