GRRAT LONG-LEGGED SPIDER^ 
Strong large muscle, whereby this little animal 
is not only enabled to suspend it's body upon 
these eight legs, but to move very swiftly over 
the tops of grass and leaves. The mouth is 
like that of a Crab, the shell is speckled with 
a sort of feathers or hairs, and the legs also are 
hairy; in shorty it has some resemblance to a 
Crab in most particulars, except the length of 
it's legs.'^ 
Much of the above desscrlption certainly 
agrees v^ith what is seen, in our Great Long- 
Legged Spider: which, perhaps, after all, may 
only be a gigantic individual of the Carter ; 
or^ at most, a large variety of that species. 
From the circumstance of it's being found 
, a6live in the night, we felt somewhat inclinedj 
to call it a Nocturnal Spider- and thus to have 
accounted, at the same time, in some degree, 
for it's rarity : but a little refle£lion convinced 
us, that this might be presuming too much ; 
since accident would occasionally disturb and 
discover an insevSl of this extraordinary size, if 
it were by any means common in our houses. 
As, therefore, we know nothing decisive re- 
spedling 
