(795) 
Here are Spiders-, that fpin their Webbs betwixt Trees (land- 
ing feven or H fathom afunder 3 and they do their Work by fpir- 
ring their Webb into the Air, where the Wind carries it from 
Tree to Tree. 9 This Webb, when finiflit, will fnare a Bird as 
big as a Thrufli. Your felf may prove it, for I have fent you 
feme. 
As to the Barkot a Tree, with which we are faid to cover mx 
Houfes, that is an error • for 'tis not the Bark, but the Leaves 
of a Tree, which we put to that ufe. And 'tis the Palmetto % 
without which Tree we could not live comfortably in this place. 
The Leaves of fome of thefe Trees are eight or ten foot loog,ani 
nigh as broad. I know no Tree in the World, that can equal it 
in the number of Commodities it affords. 
3 Tis reported, that in Virginia and upon theCoaftof Florida 
the Indians live to a very great age $ and that fome of the Peo- 
ple are of a Gigantick Stature , and ftronger by farr than 0- 
chers. 
As for the Edipfes of the Moon, you would have obferv'd here, 
and be inform'd about, I can fay little of them : but,! fuppofe ? 
my worthy Friend Mr. Norwood\m\\ give you an account thereof 
to your content. If any thing fliould caufe him to f aile, it will 
be Age and weaknefs. He hath a great defire to ferve the 
B\ Society m every refped y which fliall engage me alfo to ferve 
both them and you to the utmoft of my ability, remaining, 
Bermuda.^ July 1 6. 1 668,. 
An Extra 
Of a Letter from Paris, about the policing of Telefco- 
pical Glares by a Turn-lathes as alfo the making: 
of an extraordinary Burning-glafs at Milan. 
WE have here an Artift, that polishes Qptick-G\z&$ on 
a Turn. T have feen a Glafs of his Workmanfhip , 
which is very good, though the firft, that ever he made this 
way. It is very neat, and approaches the Objed: very much. 
He turns thefe GlalTes, as he does Wood, that is, with the fame 
facility:. 
Signorr 
