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race; pigliarono della medefima, aqua un poco per ciaf-
cheduno, fecero fegno allo Jquadrone, che Jparafie, e con
profondijfimo inchino diflero, ci rivedremo I' anno ven-
turo. Que misiri doppotantasatica, non fi ricordtivano
coja alcana, ma Jolamente fra quella mult it udine di gen-
ts, da cut fi wdevano circondati, chiedevano per pietai
d'efier condotti nelle loro case. Ed io qui mi refio Jodis
satto d’aver-vi fervito in quefta opportunit a cofi breve-
rnente, come bo potuto, sie -non come defideravate. Se in
altro mi commandarete mi travarette Jemper corrispon-
dcnte al vofiro volere: E mi confermo, &c.

All Authors both Ancient and Modern, rank
this sort of Tarentula’s amongtt Spiders. The
kind is called Phalanx, Phalangius, and Phalangium,
by * Pliny and Diofcorides. The firlt of those Au- * Plin. lib.n.
thors is misinformed, when he says, f that there and
are no Tarentula’s in Italy; and that this Insed: tPhXngfnin
* lives in Houses near to Ovens: But otherwise est- Iralite ig-
he gives a very exact description of it. It is cer- n0Cum>W:?S>-
tain, that the Tarentula bites and does not sling, as
seme have writ. Those described by * Olearius,
which he has leen about Kajcban in Per [la, are al- nes&Molas.
moll os the same shape with those in Naples; but fiQ-
if we may believe this Author, they drop their
Poyson like a drop of Water, and neither Bite nor Tom.IJib.j.
Sting.

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