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had ‘a ‘very {mall thorax or middle\part Of his body,. if compar’d. tothe 
pate number of his wings 5 which therefore,.as he mov:'d-them ve~ 
ry fle wly.fo muft he move them very! weakly. And this laft propriety do 
we find-fomewhat obferv'd alfo imbigger kind of Flying creatures,Birds ; 
fo that we fee that the Wifdomand Providence. of the All-wife Creator, 
is not 4efs fhewn- im thefe {mall defpicable creatures, Flies jar, Moths, 
which'we have branded with a name ofignominy, calling them Vermine, 
then in thofe greatet and more remakable animate bodies, Birds. \,. 
“°} eannot ‘here ftand: to add any thing about the nature of flying, 
thotigh, perhaps, on another occafion, I may: fay fomething on that fib 
ject, it being fuch asmay deferve a much more accurate examination and nd 
ferutiny then it has hitherto met with 5 For tome’ there ifeems nothing 
wanting tomake a manableto fly, but what may be/eafily enough fap: 
y d‘from the Mechanicks hitherto known, faye onely the want of 
ength, which the Mufcles of a man ‘feem utterly uncapable of, by.rea- 
fon of theit imalnefs and texture, buthoweven ftrength alfo may be me- 
chanically made,,an artificial Mufcle fo contriv'd,that thereby a'man fhall 
be able to exert what ftrength he pleafes, and to regulate it alfo to, his 
own tind, I may elfewhere endeavourtomanifelt,, fee 
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Obferv. XLVII, Of the Shepherd Spider, or long lkge'd 
Spider. el : yg 
"THe Carter,Shepherd Spider,or long-legg'd Spider,has, for two parti- 
~. cularities, very few fimilar creatures that I have met with;. the firft, 
which is difcoverable onely by the Aéicrofcope, and isin the firft and {e- 
cond Figures of the 31. Scheme, plainly defcrib’d, is the curious contri- 
vance of his eyes, of which (differing. from moft other Spiders) he has 
'| onely two, and thofe plac’d upon the top of a fmall pillar or nyiocs sing | 
out of the middle of the top of its back, or rather the crown of its head, 
for they were fix'd on the very top of this pillar (which is about the 
heighth of one of the matvete Diameters of the eye, and look’don in 
another pofture,appear'd much of the fhape, B CD) he two eyes, BB, 
were placedback to back, with the tran{parent parts,or the pupils, look- 
ing towards either fide, but fomewhat more forward. then: backwards. 
C was the column or neck on which they ftood, and D the crown of the 
head out of which that neck fprung. sth edt esac bap casks 
Thefe eyes,to appearance, bemd to be of the very fame ftructure with 
_ that of larger bixocular creatures, feeming to have a very {mooth and ve- 
| ry protuberant Cormea,and in the midft of it to have a very black pupil, 
‘| Incompafied about with a kind of grey Iris, as appears by the Figures 
whether it were abletomove thefe eyes,to and fro, [have not obferv'd, 
but’tis not very likely he fhould,the pillar or neck ‘C, feeming tobe co- 
ver'd and ftiffen’d with a crufty thell ; but Nature, in. probabil tas 8 f 
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