[rf] 
been examined by fome gentlemen in the filk-trade, 
who are well acquainted with the reels of that coun- 
try, and allowed to work with much more hmplicitv, 
and greater perfection. Nor can I account why this 
improvement was not before attempted, but from the 
ftrong biafs of habit confining the powers of inven- 
tion. 
Some advantages, which this reel feems to have above 
the prefent Piedmontefe reel, are, ill, that by a new 
proportion firuck between the wheels, the fiik thread 
will not be laid in the fame place on the reel till after 
the winding of near fix hundred yards : by which 
means, the thread having time to dry, all Vitrage is 
avoided ; whereas thofe now ufed do not reel above 
an hundred and fifty yards till the thread is laid in 
the fame place. 
adly, I have added to this reel an improved me- 
thod of making the double croifiure in as eafy a 
manner as the Piedmontefe now make the lingle 
one ; the double croifiure giving a confiderable per- 
fection to the filk above what it obtains from the 
lingle one. 
As the limits to which I purpofe confining this 
memoir will not allow of a more extended deferip- 
tion, which, to gentlemen not verfed in thefe matters, 
may already be thought too long, I fiiall avoid a 
greater trefpafs on your attention, by a brief reference 
to the annexed figure [See Tab. II.], and to the 
model before you [ See Tab. III.]. 
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Tab. II. reprefents the prefent Piedmontefe reel. 
The pofition of the four wheels is fihewn at A, B, C, 
and D : the toothed wheel A is fixed upon the axle 
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