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away. — After this Separation the Fifh that remained 
with me was fo affe&ed, that for three Weeks it 
would eat nothing I could give it; and therefore, 
fearing it would pine to Death, I fent it to the Gen- 
tleman on whom I had bellowed its Companion ; 
and what is very extraordinary, upon being put to- 
gether again, it eat immediately, recovered its former 
Brisknefs, and both of them ar£ hill alive. 
I have made abundance of other Obfervations on 
Fifh, but (hall only add at prefent, that when they 
remain fupine and una&ive, they every now-and-then 
gape and yawn, as moll Land Animals do, when 
weary of the Situation they are in. I remain, 
S I R, 
Norwich , July 9* 
1746. Tours , &c. 
W. Arderon. 
XVI. A Suppofltion how the white Matter is 
produced , which floats about in the Air in 
Autumn ; in a Letter from the fame to 
Mr. Baker. 
SIR, Norwich , Aug. 28. 1746. 
Read Feb. 26 *TJJ AVING lately a large Spider in my 
17467. J7JI Hand, by chance 1 let it fall, and 
it hung by its Thread, as they very commonly do. 
On holding my Hand very ftili it readily afeended 
up it agaui, and thus, by giving it a Shake, and then 
holding my Hand ftili, the Spider afeended and de- 
fended 
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