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Axis was f of an inch 5 but if you lookt upon them fide- 
ways, their Diameter appeared i of an inch 5 from whence 
it is very eafie to reckon what a vaft number of Eggs one 
Spider will lay. 
Upon a narrow view of this great heap of Eggs that 
lay in order by one ariothen one would be apt to. judge 
that it were impoflible for fuch a number of them to pro- 
ceed from the.body of one Spider, than which they feem'd.^ 
much larger. 
But the wonder will ceafe, when we confider ( as 1 al-; 
ways obferv'd when I open d the Spiders) that the -Eggs- 
are not exadly round while they lye in the Spider s Bo- 
dy, but being preft together, they ailume particular Fi- 
gures, in order (" if I may fo fay ) to their own conve- 
nience. 
Thefe Eggs being round, and lying in order, and 
touching each other but in one point, muft needs take 
up more room than when they lay in the Spider's Belly, 
The Membrane or Shell of thefe Eggs is very weak, lo 
that in endeavouring to feparate them, becaufe theyftick 
to one another by a Vifcous Matter, I could not help 
breaking them oftentimes- 
On the laft of OSober^ about five in the evening, I ob- 
ferved that another Spider had made his Web againft the 
fides of the Glafs Tube, in order to lodge his Eggs there 5 
and whereas before I could not imagine how the Spider 
had placed his Eggs in the middle of the Glafs^ I was 
now fully fatisfied in that niatter, for I faw plainly that 
file made her Web like a thick Bed againft the Glafs ^ 
that as yet there was no Eggs in it 3 and that which was 
moft remarkable was, that this^ Bed was not flat, but had 
a well-contrived hollownefs within it, not exadiy round,, 
but oval. 
About 40 minutes after I viewed the Spider again, and 
found that the faid Bed was not only full of Eggs, but 
that there vyas a great heap of them ftanding above the 
