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Bed, and the Spider very bufie in covering her Eggs with 
her Web on every fide, ufing her two hinder Feet as well 
as her Breech to fatten the Threads that proceeded from 
thence, and to range them all in order 5 all her Working 
Inftruments were open, and all of them feem'd to me to 
be delivering out Thread for the Work, fometimes (he 
raifed up her Body a ftraw's breadth, then removed it as 
much, that the Threads might have a freer paflage, and 
cover her Eggs the better. 
When (he was delivered of all her Eggs, her Body was 
not the fourth part fo large as before, and tho lately 
fmoothand diftend^d, 'twas now fiird with Wrinkles and 
Cavities. 
On the goth of O&oher I carried fome of the Eggs in 
a Glafs Tube about me, to fee whether the heat of my 
Body would hatch the young Spiders, which we know 
ufually come out of their Eggs in Spring. 
I concluded now, that all Spiders that in the latter 
part of the year have great Bodies, are big with Egg. ♦ 
I was farther defirous to fee how the Spider laid her 
Eggs, and the 7 thoi November I had my wiQi in fome 
meafure, for I faw 6 or 8 Eggs laid, which did not come 
out of the hind-mofl: part of the Body, as in all other 
Creatures, but from the upper part of the Belly, not far 
from her hind-legs, where grows a fort of a Hock of a 
particular form, much like that, wherewith old men fa- 
tten their Breeches and Doublets together, of which when 
I faw it before, I could not conceive the ufe, this Hock 
came partly over the opening, out of which- the Eggs 
proceed, thro which I did believe (he difcharg'd her Ex- 
crements. 
I could have wiflit indeed, that I had come fooner to 
the laying of the Eggs, that I might have mentioned it 
with greater certainty, for the Spider, as foon as everfne 
had laid her Eggs, covered them with her Web. 
But 
