NATURAL HISTORY. © 18. 
netrated with its ting; but on the contrary, fhe can break the bones 
and the icales of the Waip, with her nippers. 
The wandering Spiders are of feveral forts and colours. They genes 
rally run and:leap; but as they have not thread enough to wrap up 
their prey upon occafion, much lefs to ftop the motions of the wings 
and legs. of the Flie, nature has furnifhed them with two fore paws or 
arms, with two tufts of a fort of down, with which they can reftrain 
the motion and’ agitation of the wings of their enemy. ‘There is as 
nother black fort, lefs than this, which weaves her web in September 
and Odober, among the grafs in the meadows, or in ftubble, which 
remains after the harveft'; however {he lets fome of the threads be cats 
ried.in the air by the wind, infomuch that it is often full of thems 
Thefe threads.unite, lenghen, and ftop, at any place they are driven 
to, and the Spiders make ufe of them:in fuch a manner, that one 
would think they could Ay, or they are carried: along with them by: 
the wind. There is nothing more remarkable in thefe, than the ex« 
treme length and firmnefs of their legs ; for as they are defigned to live. 
among flender grafs, and weeds, the {malleft blade would flop and’ems 
barrafs them, if they had not thefe long legs, to raife them higher 
than the common grafs, and to run fpeedily after its prey. 
With regard to their laying of their eggs, they have more care and 
forefight than is generally thought ; for they are fo far from leaving 
them to.chance, that they weave a very {trong web wherein to lodge 
them. Of this they make a ftrong bag, wherein they lay their egos, 
and:it is hardly credible what pains and trouble they are at, in pers 
forming this work. This bag is often {een joined to the hinder part of © 
their bodies, in fuch a.manner, that many take it to be a part theres 
of; if by any accident it happens to be {truck off, the Spider never faila 
to join it- thereto again by their natural: glue. When the eggs are 
hatched, they get upon the old one’s back in fuch a manner, that wis 
thout a nice examination, you would take them to be part-of their 
body, though perhaps there are a thoufand in number. . 
Another fort of Spider lays her eggs in a bag, made like @ cap, which 
_ is fometirnes. fixed to a wall, and fometimes to a leaf, where the fits 
upon them night and day, and fhe would fooner fuffer herfelf to be 
killed, than abandon them till they are hatched. 
There is yet another fort, that make: two fmall bags, of a reddifh 
eolour, which they hang up with threads, and before them they place 
a tuft of leaves to hide them from birds and Wafps, which would 
otherwife fall upon the bags, which are full of eggs; for the wind 
keeping them continually in motion, it prevents them from taking nos 
tice of what hangs behind. It is wonderful to confider the: ftrengthi 
which all Spiders in general endow their bags with; and they generally 
hang them up againft a wall. 
The Tarantula has fome refemblance to a houfe Spider, but it is the 
largeft yet known in Lurofe, and'is a native of that part of /taly, éale 
led Apuglia. Its body is three quarters of an inch long, and of the 
thicknels of one’s little finger ; the colour is generally of an olive brow‘is 
variegated with one that is more dufky. It has eight legs, with three 
joints each, and eight eyes; from the mouth proceeds-a pair of #ipe 
ers, dentated or ferrated on the imfide, which are folid, and A very 
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