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thought the Piedmontefe reel could not eafily be 
brought into common ufe, or whether a little vanity- 
hindered them from copying or improving the in- 
ventions of other nations, 1 will not determine. How- 
ever that be, they applied themfelves wholly to the 
improvement of the band-reeh 
Two perfons, viz. M. St. Pried: of Languedoc, 
and M. Vaucant^on of the Academy of Sciences at 
Paris, have, within thefe three or four lad years, 
brought the band-reel to the greated perfection of 
which it is capable. Either of their reds will make 
raw f.lk fit for organcine or warp, provided they are 
accurately made ; but a fmall error in their con- 
druCtion dedroys their perfection. I have now in 
mypoffeffion a reel made according toM.Vaucan^n's 
method ; where I can (hew, that in two wheels, 
whofe diameters differ but very inconfiderably, one 
fhall reel the filk properly, and the other throw it 
into a total Vitrage. I have however given a de- 
fcription and plate of this reel, in a treatife on the 
culture of filk, which I publilhed lad year, becaufe 
its contrivance is more fimple than that of M. St. 
Pried, and performs as well. 
The Piedmontefe reel is free from the inconve- 
niencies of all thofe reels which ufe a band : the 
maker cannot eafily err in the condruCtion ; the wea- 
ther cannot affeCt its operation ; nor is it fubjeCt, 
during its work, to the many irregularities of the 
band-reel. The chief objections which have hin- 
dered its being commonly ufed are, that four toothed 
wheels are more difficult to be made than two plain 
grooved ones ; and that being made only of wood, 
they arc eafily broken. So that it is neceffary to 
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