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Of Spiders. 
or pupils more protuberant than the reft of the circum¬ 
ambient matter, s looking towards either fide, but fome- 
thing more forward than backwards. C, fig. 187. fhews 
the column da which they ftood, and D D the cfowii 
of the head. 
The fecond peculiarity is the prodigious length of its 
legs, which are eight in number, in proportion to its 
Imall round body. Each leg of this, of which the figures 
185. and 186. area reprefentation, was above 16 times 
the whole length of its body; they are jointed juft like 
thofe of a crab; each of which proceeds from a fmall 
Ihell-like cafe, of a conical figure, as at 1111, &c. af 
fig. 186. which reprefents the under part of its belly; 
thefe are fattened on to the protuberant body Of the in- 
fed!, forming a kind of blunt cone, whofe apex is at M, 
about which the fmaller cones of the legs are placed, 
each of them reaching almoft to the top, in fo admirable 
a manner, as does not a little manifeft the wifdom of 
nature’s almighty architect, in the contrivance thereof. 
It has two fore claws K K tipped with black like a crab’s, 
which open and ftiut exadtly like thofe in a fcorpion, 
and are faw-like or indented on the infide. Its horns 
are feen at A A and mouth at L. 
The beft way to obferve this fpider is to cut off all its 
legs, and place it-before the microfcope upon the objedt- 
carrying glais, or upon the black and white objedt- 
plate. 
The little white field-fpider with fhort legs, found 
plentifully among new hay, whofe body appears like 
white amber, emboffed with black knobs, out of each 
whereof grow prickles like whmpricks, fome have fix, 
feme eight eyes, that may be diftindtly feen, quick and 
lively 3 
l Power’s Micro, Obf. p. 14^ 
