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And not to go out of that Trad, I take the forking of 
fome Threds (for the Dodor excepts the moft ) to be 
meerly accidental, even ssit is to our Hair, neither do 
I think that any fuch thing is defignedly done by the -^» 
nimal: and, for as much as I have obferved, Spiders threds 
of themlelves are exceeding flick and Imootk^ and this 
was not unobferved by the Antieats : Pliny in the praife 
of Italian Linnen fays, I^Slovinis fumma tenuitcis^ nulla la- 
nugo, nervojitas filo (vqualior pene quam Araneu. There 
is, indeed, a dividing in the projection of the Ti^r^^j- of - 
many lorts of Spiders, and efpecially among thofe which . 
we diftinguifli by the name of Lupz^ which tribe is moft 
frequent and particularly delighted in failing, yet this 
dividing is much of another nature then Forking. Thefe 
will dart a whole ^y^^w^w or flieaf at once, confift- 
ingo? m^ivf Filament sytt all of one length, all divided 
each from the other, and diftin6t,untilfome chance either 
fnap them ofJ';Or entangle them; but for the moft part,you 
mayobferve, that the longer they grow, the more they 
fpread and appear to a diligent obferver like the nume- 
rous Rays in the tail of a blazing Star. As for that which 
carries them away in the-///r fo fwift off hand, it is, as I 
formerly hinted, partly their fudden leap, and partly 
the length and number of the Threds projed:ed,the ftream 
of the Air and beating more forceably upon them, 
and thus we fee a Rope that unexped;edly flips, comes 
home with aleeming violence, and partly fand that 
much too^ the pofture and manageffient of their Feet^ _ 
which, at leaft by fome forts of them, I have obferved to 
have been uled very like Wijigs ot Od.VQs, the feveral legs 
(like our fingers) being fometimes clofe ioyned and o- 
thei times opened, again bent or extended, 6c. accord- 
ding to the feveral neceilities and will of the faiier. To 
fly they cannot ftridly be faid, they being carried into 
the Air by external force s but they can, in cafe the wind 
fuffer them, //^^r their Coarfe, and perhaps ?nount and 
X B 2 dejcend 
