186 . Account of a Spinning. Limax, 
hanging by its thread, and reaching to within a foot of the ground, 
and therefore I did not much regard it; till on a nearer view I per- 
ceived it, to my great furprife,to be à {mall Slug, about three quarters. 
of an inch in length. It hung by the extremity of its tail, and gra- 
dually defcended till it almoft touched the ground, when I fhook 
it off with my finger. The thread feemed to iffue from the body of 
the animal ; yet I never obferved a fecond or a former inftance of 
any kind of Snail having the faculty of forming a thread.” 
February 6, 1791. GEORGE SHAW. 
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