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I told you before, that I carried the Eggs of a Spider 
fo long about me till all the Moifture was exhaled 5 but 
no young ones hatched 5 from which experiment I con- 
cluded that thefe were the Eggs ot a Spider, that had ne- 
ver coupled with the Male. 
Lmacie the fameExperiiTient ^vith the Eggs of a fecond 
Spider, and met with the fame fuccefs.- 
The firft of Jannary was the third time that I took a 
Spider*^ Eggs, and putting them into a Glafs Tube, car- 
ried them about me 5 they were laid by the laTgeft Spider 
that 1 had feen the laft Summer, and it was one of the 
laft I could meet with in the Gardens. I view'd them fe- 
veral days without opening them, and finding no altera- 
tion in them, which I attributed to the cold weather, I 
kept them four days without looking at them, imagining 
I ihould have no better luck with them than with the 
reft^ but upon the 17th of the fame month, in theilorn- 
ing, viewing them again, I faw five and twenty young 
Spiders that were com.e out of fo many Eggs, and about 
five and twenty more whofe Bodies were but halt out of 
the Egg-fhell, and fome of them had their Shells hanging 
upon their Tail, and in the evening about fix a clock I 
reckon'd one hundred and fifty young ones. 
. The next day I view'd them again, and then I con- 
cluded that nomore Spiders would come out of the Eggs 5 
and that feveral of them which I faw lying about the 
Glafs were Barren, and that in others the young Spiders 
were dead, the number of which I judged to be about 
fifty, and about ten or twelve Eggs were blackifli. 
When the Glafs Tube and the young Spiders that were 
in it had been out of my Pocket but 15 minutes, in the 
very cold weather, - I could hardly difcover any life or 
motion in fome of them 3 but fo foon as the Glafs Tube 
had been a little warm'd again, they were brisk and live- 
ly, and moft of them got together in a company, as we 
fee in fwarms of Bees, ^ and fo hung about the Web, 
where the Eggs had been lodged before*/ ^ Oa 
