(2104^ 
They will often fatten their threads in feveral places to 
the things, they creep upon The manner is, by beating 
their tayles againft them as they creep along 5 which may 
be underftood by this line. See Tak2.F^g.VllLBy this fre- 
quent beating in of their thread among the afperities of the 
place, where they creep, they either fecure it againft the 
wind,that it be not eafily blown away j or elfe, whilft they 
hang by it^ if one ftick breaks, another holds faft $ fo that 
they do not fall to the ground* 
ji Note C<mcernwg the next foregoing ReUtion. 
AFter we had received the precedent Confirmation 
touching the/r/2 obferver of the Darting of Spiders^ 
there came to hand a Letter from that Inquifitive Gentle- 
man,Mr.A/4r/i« Lijier^ intimating. That if we were not yet 
fully fatisfied about that matter, he had this further to fay i 
that Mr. IFraj/ kne%v nothing of his knowing it,no more than 
he (Mn£7/?er)kneW5that either he or any body elfe knew it, 
untill fuch time, as he occafionally fenthim a Catalogue of 
our Englifti Spiders : Upon which fubjeft^in the next Letter, 
Mr. Wrajf put this among other queftions to Mr. Lijier^ whe- 
ther he had obferved the Darting of Spiders : To which he 
anfwer'd in the affirmative, relating to him many other cir- 
cumftances not oblerved by him before, fo that he was defi- 
red by M* ^r^^to draw up his notes, and fuffer him to pre- 
fcnt them to the R.Smet/ : which he did. After which^the 
faid Notes were alfd publrfti'd , in Numh^ 50^ of thefe 
Books. 
Whence it appears, that this Obftrvation is as well Mr. 
Lijiers, as Dr. Hnlfe's (as is alfo acknowledged in the begin* 
ningof the precedent Account^ ) thoughit be true a]fo,that 
when it was written and fent by the former of thofe two 
Gentlemen,it was not then a thing altogether unknown to 
Ml. Wray^ but confirmed and enlarged by Mr.Li/?er/ own 
Obfer- 
