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CHAPTER V. 
OF THE LEAPERS IN GENERAL, AND OF THE FIRST DIVISION, OR 
WOLVES. 
Though the works of the Creator appear to us to be intermixed in a wonderful man- 
ner with conveniences and inconveniences (if fuch an exprelTion may be allowed) and 
though men frequently, alas ! repine at the difpenfations of Providence, yet every other animal, 
even the lead:, appears to be contented with its lot. Exclufive of the fmall and dim eyes, 
which the Spiders hitherto defcribed, appear to have, their tumid bellies and flender legs ren- 
der them lefs capable of running, or feeking abroad for their prey, but fo much the fitter and 
readier for their various modes of weaving their webs, by which means without care or trouble 
they obtain a fufficient nutriment. On the contrary, all the Spiders which come now to be 
defcribed, have flighter or more agile bodies, and thicker and ftronger legs, by which means 
they are fo much the more calculated for long excurfions and great leaps, as they are lefs fo 
for weaving. With their large and (harp eyes they obferve their prey, even when flying about 
at fome diftance, and when it approaches nearer, fuddenly feize it. 
2. This clafs of Spiders being clearly divided into three affortments, let us firfl examine, 
(without difturbing the arrangement of the others) that fet, which was called by the older 
writers, by the name of Wolves, and which have the ‘following characters : 
1. They have four large eyes, and as many fmaller ones in a right line below them, on 
the thorax. Of the former, the two outer are bigger than the intermediate ones, and above 
them, and decline a little towards the fide : the other two alfo are on the fide, but nearer the 
abdomen. See plate 5, fig. 9. 
2. The hind-legs are longed j the fore-legs a little fhorteiq then the fecond pair j and the 
tliird pair are fhorted. 
3. The females carry their bags of eggs under their bellies; to which the young alfo ad- 
here after being hatched; being carried about, and fed by the parent, till they are able to 
fliift for themfelves. 
SPECIES I. 
