(ioi4) 
Thefe Smkl are to be found frequenc enough ondcr the 
toofebark of Trees , as old Will cm and in the ragged clefts 
otElmsmd Oak&c. and in no other place elfe , thjt I could 
obfen^^. 
YoQ-tell me , that it is generally concluded by Philofophers, 
That the reafon of the ufnall Tf^rn of Smiles from the left to the 
right 5 is the like motion of the Sun , and that efpecially more 
Nord-ward , there having not been hitherto difcovercd any in 
our parts of the contrary Turn to the Sm*s motion. Bat this 
is not the only cife 5 where they are out, whoconfalt notthe 
Stom of Naturcbut their own phancy. What I am further about 
to tell you concerning Spiders , is as evident an Inftance againft 
them. 
The U^g Threads in the Air in Summer , and efpcciallyto- 
wards Seftemher , have been a ftrange puzel to the wifcr World. 
It would divert you 5 though you know them as well as I , if I 
here reckoned ap the ridiculous opinions concerning them ^ but 
I omit them , andproceed to tell you the certain andimmediate 
Authors of thfem, and how they make them. 
I faythen,that alliypiders, that fpin in a thread ^(thofe, 
whichwe call or long-leggM Spiders , never doe, j 
are the makers of chefe threads, fo muchwondrcdac, and in 
fach infinite quantities every where. 
I fenc you the lift hummer a Catalogue of thirty for ts of Spi- 
ders, that I had diftinguiflit here with us in England 5 and I 
muftconfefs, I hid weUnear compleated that number, with 
many other Experiments conce^n-ng them , beforel difcovercd 
this fecret. You inuft not expdS here from me any thing more, 
than what you demanded of me for as for other Experiments, 
I reicrve them till our meeciag. 
I had exa^lly mark'd all.the ways of Weaving, ufedby any 
forts of them , and in thofe admirable works I hid ever noted 
that they ftill iet-do#n the Thread,the5^' made ufe of - and drew 
itafterthem. Happily at length in neerly attending on one, 
that wrought a nect , I fa vv him fuddainly in the mid- work to 
defiftj and turning his taile into the wind to dart out a thred 
with thie violencq and ftrearae , we fee water fpout caic of 4 
Jpringj Thisthiead taken up by the wind, was in a moment c- 
rnitted 
