11. A Letter from Mr Anthony ygLnL^cuv/cnhook, 
F, S. concerning Spiders^ their wa) ofkjl" 
ling their Preyy Spinning their Webbs ^ Genera\ 
tiony &c. 
Delft in Holland, June 21. lyoi 
A Certain Gentleman fitting in his Garden, and ob- 
ferving a Spider of a blackifh colour, and its Body- 
like Chagrine Leather, took a fmall Twig, and preffing 
it therewith, out of the upper part of the Body there 
came forth a great number of fmall Spiders. 
This appeared a ftrange Paradox to me, and I wifht 
that I might partake of fuch a wonderful fight. 
I objeftcd to this Gentleman, that poflibly the Spider 
was carrying its young ones on its back when he faw it, 
and that thro the unevenefs of thofe Creatures, the Skin 
of the Spider appeared like Chagrine Leather. 
Having then prepared fuch Glafles as were proper to 
contain the Spiders chat I intended to obferve, tho I was 
perfwaded I fliould make but little of my Remarks in the 
Winter ieafon, yet feeing about the latter end of Febru- 
ary a Black Spider running about the Houfe, I took him 
up, and viewing him with my Microfcopes, I obferved 
that his Body and Legs were covered with a great num- 
ber of Hair», that flood as thick upon his Carcafs as the 
Bridles on a Hogs^ Back^ from whence 1 concluded that 
it was not the fame Spider my Friend had feen. 
Tho the Legs were very Hairy, yet were they fo clear, 
that I could eafily perceive the Circulation of the Blood, 
in feveral Veins which were not a hairs breadth diftance 
from one another ^ and afterwards I faw other fine Blood- 
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