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ragraph of my fourth Letter. They are chiefly 

 found in Holes and Crevices about Dwellin^y- 

 houfes : They have two Eyes, and two Stumps, 

 like fhort Horns that flick out of their Heads : 

 They have fix or eight Legs : Their Body is 

 about the fize of a Hazel Nut, round, and co- 

 vered with long brown Hair, that lies clofe to it. 

 One of them bit an Officer juft under his Ear, foon 

 after which, he began to talk in a delirious man- 

 ner, (kipping and frifking up and down: But 

 his Friends fecured him immediately, fweated 

 him fufficiently, and kept him as quiet and flill 

 as poffible, for about four hours, when he came 

 perfeftly to himfelf, in all refpeds, and never re- 

 lapfed. It is a great pity they did not try what 

 effedl Mufick would have on him. The fame 

 Gentleman affured me. That at Cuba he faw 

 common Spiders, whofe Body was as broad as 

 his Hand, flat almoft an inch in thicknefs, and 

 whofe Legs were proportionable. He faw alfo 

 vaft numbers of Alligators, and fome of fifteen 

 feet in length : They roared like Bulls, moved 

 their upper Jaw, but had two Eyes proportioned 

 to their Head ; whereas the Crocodile, (Cyclops- 

 like) has no more than one fmall Eye, which is 

 fixed in the middle of its Forehead. 



II. This hairy kind of Tarantula^ puts me 

 in mind. That when I lived at Barton, in Wejl^ 

 morelandy I went with fome other School-Boys 



into 



