mltui ^^^^ fkthoiM long^ ftill Iflfhlng mt of th$ belfy or 
che animal 5. by md by cl^ ..Spider ■ kpt into tketiryaad' the 
t href <f ^mounted ter up Mftly^- 
After this firft difcovery , I made the like Ohkivmon in ai- 
moft all the forts of Spiders 5 I had before diftiDguiihed^ and 
I found the Air filled with ycuog and old faiKng oa their threads , 
and undoubtedly fefeing Gnats and other In feds in their f if- 
fage 5 ' there being often as mamfeft fignes of jflaiighter, asleggs^ 
wings of Flyes d^^, on thefe thread Sjas in their webbs below« 
One thing yet was a wonder tome, Thst many of < 
thefe threads,that cams down ouc of the Air, were not fingle 9 
bucfnarled and with complicablewcbly locks, now more now 
lefs 5 and that on thefe I did not always find fpiders^ though 
many times I had foond two or three upod one of them: 
whereas when they firft flew op 5 the thread was ftillfingle^ 
or but little tangled, or^ it may be, thicker in one place then 
another. In the end , by good attention I plainly found, what 
fatisfied me abundantly ^ and that was this- That lobfetved 
chcmtogcttothetopof a ftalk orbough, or fome fuch like, 
thing , where they exercife this darting of threads into the air^ 
2nd if they had not a mind to faile , they either fwiftly drew it 
up again , winding it up with their fore-teet over there head in- 
to a lock , or break it off fhorc, and let the aircirry it away^ 
Thistheywill doe many times together , and youmty fee of 
them , that have chains of thefe locks or fnarled thread before 
them, and yet not taken flight. 
Again, I found, that after the firft flight, all the time of 
their failing they make locks , ftill darting forth frefh fupplies 
ofthred tofportaadfaileby. 
It is further to be noted ^ that thefe complicated threads are 
^much more tender, than our houfe- webbs. 
In Winter and at Chriftaaas I have obferved them bufy a 
darting, but few of them faile then, and therefore but Sngle 
tfeeds only are to be feen * And befides , they are but the 
yomgones of laft Autumns hatch, that arc then employed 5 
audit is more thin probable, that the great ropes of Autumne 
are made only by the great ones, and upon long paifages and 
Sammer weather,whea great numbers of prey n^ay invite them 
to ftay longer up. " jBuc 
