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up,and raife its head as high as it could above the ground, that it might 
{tarethe further about it, juft after the fame manner asI havealfo ob- 
ferv'd a hunting Spider to do: and putting my finger towards them, 
they have at firftall run towardsit,tilhalmoftat it; and then they would 
ftand round about it, at a certain diftance, and fmell, asit were, and con- 
fider whether they fhould any of them venture any further, till one more 
bold chen the reft venturing to:climb it,all the reft, if I would haye fuffer- 
‘edthem, would haye immediately followed : many fuch other feeming- 
‘rational actions I have obferv’d in this little Vermine with much plea- 
re,which would be too long to be here related 5 thofe that defire more 
of them may fatisfie their curiofity in Ligons Hiftory of the Barbadoes. 
Having infnar'd feveral of thefe into a {mall Box, I made choice of the 
talleft grown among them, and feparating it from the reft,I gave ita Gill a 
') of Brandy, or Spirit of Wine, which after a while e’en knock d him down 
. dead drunk, fo thathe became movelefs, though at firft puttinginhe = 
ftruggled for a pretty while very much, till at laft, certain bubbles iffus 
ing out of its mouth, it ceafed to move; this (becaufe I had before 
found them quickly to recover again, if they were taken out prefently ) 
| Ifuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it 
| out; and put its body and legs into a natural pofture, remained move- 
lefs,about:an hour; but then , upon a fudden, asif it had. been awa- 
ken out of adrunken fleep, it fuddenly reviy.d. and ran away; be- 
ing caught, and fery'd as before, he for a while continued ftruggling and 
_ ftriving,till at laft there iffued feveral bubbles out of itsmouth,and then, 
'| tanquame animane expirafet, he remained movelefs for a goed while ; but 
~‘ at length again recovering, it was again redipt, and fuflered to lyefome 
hours: in the Spirit 5 notwithftanding which, after it had layen dry 
| fome three or four hours, it again recovered life and motion :. Which 
kind of Experiments, if profecuted, which they highly deferve, feem 
to me of no inconfiderable ufe towards the invention of the Latent 
Scheme, (as the Noble Verulam calls it) or the hidden, unknown Texture 
of Bodies. piste 
Of what Figure this Creature appear'd through the Adierofeope., the 
32. Scheme ( though not fo carefully graven.asit ought ) will repre- 
. fent to the eye, namely , That it had a large -head A A, apenas 
| end of which were two protuberant eyes, pearl d like thofe of a Fly, 
but {mallerB B 3 out of the Nofe,or foremoft part, iffued two hornsC é 
of a fhape fufficiently differing from thofe of a blew Fly, though indee 
they feem tobe both the fame kind of Organ, and to ferve for a ki 
_ Of imelling ; beyond thefe were two indented jawsDD, whichheo- 
_ pen'dfide-wayes, and was able togape them afunder very wide 5 and 
the endsof them being armed with teeth, whichmeeting went between 
each other, it was able to grafp and hold aheavy body , three or four 
times the bulk and weight of itsown body; It had only fix legs, dhap'd 
like thofe of aFly, ‘which, as] fhewed before, is an Argument thatitisa 
winged Infect, and though I could not perceive any fignof them inthe 
middle part of its body ( which feem'd to confi{t of three joints or pic 
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