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Plate 4. 
‘Charaéter of the Species. 
The Bopy is join’d to the trunk by a long finall thread. 
The AnTreRs have ten joints; aid they {pread out, and grow fmall 
to the point. 
The Fevrr are jointed, and equally hairy; and have each two toes. 
This ftrange disjointed creature, as it feems, lives, by choice, among 
men, whom it never offends; but it is beyond meafure terrible 
to the lefler infects : and by the fabricature of its dwelling, it might 
become an objet of furprife and wonder; tho’ there were nothing 
more to recommend it to our notice. 
I received this particular Fly from Peterborough in Northampton- 
fhire, where it had form’d its cells in the mud-wall of a fmall cot- 
tage, juft under the edge of the thatch; dry, warm, and fhelter’d 
from the weather. 
The preceding kind lives.in a mere cave of its own making ; 
a fimple, oval hole, with a fmall opening, and larger within : this had 
turn’d its dwelling in a clofe fpiral form, and polifh’d the infide fo 
well, that it had the afpec&t of one of the fpiral fhells we fee in ca- 
binets, when faw’d open: about the mouth of this, was form’d a 
kind of funnel, covered with legs and wings of flaughter’d Infects ; 
and juft within this mouth ufually fat the inhabitant watch- 
ing what came by; for the ftrange ftructure of his body made him 
lefs fond of flying far; left half of it fhould be left behind him. 
Befide the aftonifhing havock of this creature among the Infects, 
on which it preys, there is a part of its hiftory ftrangely replete 
with horror: it has been obferved, that while the Savages are {o 
deftructive of other creatures, they have a wonderful attention to 
their young; and this, by a courfe of Providence unknown to us, 
any more than by the term inftin@, appears in all their actions, even 
before thofe young are born. 
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