io6 LETTER IV. 



" Cloaths they generally wear, are of the mofl: 

 " ufual colours, as flefli coloured, red, blue, and 

 " the like: but whenever they fee any black, 

 they fall in fuch a paffion, that they run with 

 Swords after thofe that wear that colour 3 one 

 Perfon only, I have known among many, 

 who was not difpleafed at the fight of black 

 Cloaths, but then he did not fkip about with 

 fo much vigour as the others. And now that 

 I have given you a general defcription of the 

 Tarantula, and the effedls of its biting ; give 

 me leave. Dear Friend, to enlarge a little, and 

 to relate two particular Cafes, that I, with fe- 

 veral others, have actually feen in my own 

 Country, and its Neighbourhood. One ^ohi 

 James 'Teforo^ (whom I have feen dance about 

 lix times) happened one day to be in a Wood 

 where he had bufinefs, and I believe that he 

 was fenfible that the time of his fufFering for 

 *' the bite of a Tarantula drew near : For he 

 " made towards his Habitation ; but he dropped 

 down by the way, and was found ftretched 

 out upon the bare ground, which being known 

 in the Country about us, many ran thither, 

 and I among the reft ; and we found the poor 

 Countryman cppreffed with a difficulty of 

 breathing ; and we farther obferved that his 

 " face and hands began to turn black. But as we 

 ^' all knew his Diftemper, a Gittar was brought, 



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