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Title: A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce : containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms ... a particular description of the different productions of art and nature, which are the basis and support of commerce ... foreign commerce ...
Year: 1766 (1760s)
Authors: Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL
Subjects: Commerce Industries Commercial law
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by S. Crowder ...
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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s of three ironrods, in the fore part of the reel, then upon the bobbinsor pullies, and at laft are drawn out to the reel itfelf, andthere fattened; each to an end of an arm or branch of thereel. Thus difpofed, the workman, giving motion to thereel, by turning the handle, guides his threads; fubfti-tutes new ones, when any of them break, or any of theballs are wound out; ftrengthens them where neceffary, byadding others, and takes away the balls wound out, orthat, having been pierced, are full of water. In this manner, two workmen will fpin and reel threepounds of filk in a day, which is a greater difpatchthan is made by the fpinning-wheel, or diftafF. Indeed,all filks cannot be fpun and reeled after this manner, eitherby reafon the balls have been perforated by the filk-wormsthemfelves, or becaufe they are double, or too weak tobear the water, or becaufe they are coarfe, &c. Of allthefe together, they make a particular kind of filk called floretta: s i\e t$ /-r
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0Jt0??<kl SctiJp., s i L s i L floretta : which being carded, or even fpuh on the diftaff,or the wheel, in the condition it comes from the ball,njakes a tolerable filk. As to the balls, after opening them with fciflars, andtaking out the infects (which are of fome ufe for the feed-ing of poultry) they are fteeped three or four days introughs, the water whereof is changed every day toprevent their (linking. When they are well Foftened bythis fcouring, and cleared of that gummy matter theworm had lined the infide withal, and which renders itimpenetrable to the water, and even to air itfelf, they boilthem half an hour in a lye of afhes, very clear and well(trained: and after warning them out in the river, anddrying them in the fun, they card and fpin them on thewheel, &c. and thus make another kind of floretta, fome-What inferior to the former. The feveral preparations which filks undergo, to fitthem to be ufed in the manufactures of filken fluffs, arethe fpinning, reeling, millin

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