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ply'd that defect, by making the Cornea fo very protuberant and (etin: 
it fo cleer above the fhzehowi or obftructin of he roff “ab ack cet 
ea Is 8 Pep & pr: P the body, 
that 'tis likely each eye may’ perceive,though not fee diftind y; almoft a 
Hemifphere, whence having fo fmall and round a’ body plac’d’ upon fach 
long leggs, it is quickly able {0 to wind, and turn it, as to fee any thing 
- diftinét. This creature, as do all other Spiders I have yet examin’d, does 
very much differ from moft other Infects in the Pigure of its €yes for | 
I cannot, with my beft Azcrofcope, difcover ‘its eyes to. be any’ ways 
knobb‘d or pearl'd like thofe of other Infeéts,'919 07 1)00 0 bei tec TO) 
The fecond Peculiarity which ‘is obvious ‘to the'eye, is allo very re# 
markable, and thatis the prodigious length of its leggs, in proportion to 
its {mall round body, each legg of this I drew, beiiig above fixtéen times 
the length of its whole body, and there'are fome which have them yet 
longer, and others that feem of the fame kind,that have them a great deal 
fhorter 5 the eight leggs are each of them jointed, juft like thofe of a 
Crab, but every. of the parts.are. fpum out-prodigioufly longer in pro- 
portion ; each of thefe leggs are terminated in’a final cafeor fhell, apd 
almoft like that of a Mufle-fhell, as is evident in the third: Figuré ofthe 
fame Scheme (that reprefents the appearance of the under part or belly 
ofthe creature) by the fhape of the protuberant conical body, 111 I, &c. 
Thefe areas ’twere plac’d or faften’d on to the protuberant body of the 
Infect,which isto be fuppos'd very high at M,making a kind of blunt cone 
whereof M is to be fuppos'd the 4pex, about which greater cone of the” 
body,the fmaller cones of the leggs are plac’d,each of tient dhmotipenilss 
ing to the top info admirable a manner, as does‘ not a little manifeft the 
wifdom of Nature in the contrivance; for thefé long Leavers (asI may fo 
call them)of the legs, havingnot the advantage ofa long end on the other 
fide ‘of the Aypomochlioz or centers on which the parts of the leggs move, 
muft neceflarily require a vaft ftrength to move them, and keep the) 
body ballanc’d and fufpended, in fo much, that if we fhould fuppofe a 
man’s body fufpended by fuch'a contrivance, an hundred and fifty” 
times the ftrength of a man would not keep the body from falling on the 
breaft. To fupply therefore each of thefe leggs with its proper ftrength, 
Nature has allow'd toeacha large Cheft or Cell, in which is included a , 
~_ very largeand ftrong Mufcle, andthereby this little Animal is not onely | 
able to fufpend its body upon lefs then thefe eight, but to move it very 
{wiftly over the tops of grafs and leaves. Se a ae 
“Nor are. thefe eight leggs fo prodigioufly long; but the’ ninth, and. 
tenth; which are the twoclaws, K K, are as fhort, and ferve infteed of a 
probofcis, for thofe feem'd very little longer then his mouth; each of them 
‘had ‘three parts; but very fhort, ‘the joints K K, which’ reprefented 
the! third, , being longer then.both the other, This creature; feems 
(which [have feveral times with pleafure obferv’d) to throw its pady 
upon the prey, infteed of its hands, not unlike 4 hunting Spider, whic 
‘leaps like a Cat at a Moufe., The whole Fabrick was a very pretty one, 
and could I have diflected it,I doubt not but I{hould have found. as'ma- 
ny fingularities within it as without,perhaps, for the moft part,not “a 
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