GREAT LONG-LEGGED SPIDER. 
1 he whole forming, as was ingenioasiy re- 
marked by Mr. Morley, an irregular circle of 
sixteen inches in circumference. 
To this extraordinary English insecl: we have 
simply given the appellation of the Great Long- 
Legged Spider, 
Though, in catching this Spider, the body 
was too much crushed to admit of very minute 
and decided observation, we incline to consider 
it as of at least near ailmity to the Career, or 
Long-Legged Spider, We have not, however, 
the smallest knowledge of any Englisli Spider 
which approaches in length of limb the present 
cbje6l, though in bulk of body it is often con- 
siderably surpassed. 
The following description of the Carter, or 
Long-Legged Spider, compared w^irh our hgure, 
will give the reader some idea of the supposed 
similitude. 
The Carter, or Long-Legged Spider," 
says Dr. Brookes, has legs of a prodigious 
leiigth, and there is no distinction of the back 
and 
