LETTER IV. 103 



yet publifhed in Englifli -, I here prefent you 

 with it. ^ " Some time ago, Dear Mr. Bull/on, 

 you defired me to give you a little account of 

 the Tarantula, and of the Eflfefts it produces 

 in Perfons bit by it : and becaufe I am indebt- 

 ed to your merit, I will endeavour to fatisfy 

 you by the obfervations which I made with 

 my own Eyes. The Tarantulas are found not 

 only in the Provinces of Bari^ Lucca and O- 

 trantOy but alfo in that of Capitinata^ near to 

 whofe Metropolis Liicera I was bred and 

 born; it is a hot Climate, dry, and aim oft 

 " quite deftitute of /Trees. In the hot Summer 

 days, or about that feafon, they are found in 

 holes in the Earth; and to catch them, one 

 muft run a fupple Wand or Stick into the 

 holes, which being Hirred gently makes them 

 run out by the top. They are fnaped much 

 Hke a Spider, with eight Legs in two rows, 

 that is, four on each fide; and their Body 

 (which confifts of two parts joined together by 

 a little knot or ligament very vifibly) is of the 

 bignefs of a middle-fized Acorn. At one end 

 of it their Mouth jets out, and out of it they 

 " caft their Poifon in the fame manner as Adders 

 " and Vipers do, marking the place where they 

 " bite, and not by flinging as fome would have it. 



=* I am told that we have a Tarantula preferved in Spirits, 

 ^t the Mufanm AJhmokanum in Oxford. 



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