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regions, they afterwards formed a firong tegument 
on the outfide. Within this they placed themfelves 
lengthways among the threads, and rolling their 
bodies round, fpun themfelves into little hamocks 
of their own web, while in the mean time they 
fhrunk into half their former length. Thofe ha- 
mocks, being fufpended by the tranfverfe threads, 
did not prefs each other in the leaft. That they 
might take up the lefs room, they lay parallel to 
one another, and in the molt convenient order 
imaginable. 
Others, ftill more ingenious than thefe, fattened 
their threads to the edges of certain leaves, 
which, no doubt of it, they had faved from their 
ftomachsfor this very purpofe; and with that {lender 
cordage pulling in the extremities of the leaves, 
drew them into a kind of purfe, in the infide of 
which they formed the fame kind of worjk, and 
laid themfelves up in the fame manner as above. 
By this method they faved themfelves a labour, 
which the reft were at the expence of ; for the leaf 
ferved them very well for an outward defence 
againft the weather, and a place to fix their tranf- 
verfe threads to. It is probable they laid themfelves 
up in great numbers together, not only becaufe 
many were necefiary to the work of providing a 
common covering, but alfo to keep one another 
warm, while nature was preparing for the great 
change, and alfo to confine fome fubtil vapour, if- 
fuing from their bodies, which might have been 
conducive to their revivifcence, and which had been 
eafily diflipated, had they not lain clofe, and caught 
it from one another. 
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