198°  ##NATURAL HISTORY. 
young how to hunt~—which they would fometimes 
difcipline for not well obferving ; but when any of 
the old ones did mifsa leap, they would run out of 
the field, and’ hide themfelves in their crannies, as 
afhamed, and not be feen abroad for four or five 
hours after ; for, fo long have I watched the nature of 
this {trange infect, the contemplation of whofe won- 
derful fagacity has amazed me: Nor do I find, in 
any chace whatfoever, more cunning and ftratagem 
obferved. I have found fome of thefe fpiders in my 
garden, when the weather, towards the fpring, 16 
very hot; but they are nothing fo eager of hunting 
as they are in Italy.” Ts ea ge 
SPECIES V.....Thisis called the carter, long leg- 
ged fpider. It has only two eyes, which are moft tu- 
rioufly placed on the top ofa {mall pillar, rifing out of 
the top of the back. ‘The eyes: have a black purple 
in the centre af the cornea, and the iris of them is 
grey. It is likewife remarkable for the length of its 
legs, and diminutive body. The legs are alfo jointed, 
like thofe of a crab; and each terminates ina {mall 
fhell cafe, fhaped like that of a mufcle: They are 
faftened to the body, in a manner that moft curioufly 
difplays the wonderful mechanifm of nature. Thus 
is the infect enabled to move, with the greateft celer- 
ity, over the tops of grafs and leaves, where it fearches 
for its prey. The head, breaft and belly of this crea~ 
ture, are fo indifcriminated by nature, that it is 
Iearcely poffible to difcern the one from. the other. 
- Many fuppofe it to be meant by the Creator asthe 
air crab ; and adapted to the light element, in the 
fame proportion as the fea crab is adapted for the wa- 
fer. ‘ : 


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