Natural Theology : Or, Evidences of the Existence And Attributes of the Deity : Collected From the Appearances of Nature V.2
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Sometimes it will raise its tail out of the water, when a stream of water issues from it. OF INSECTS. 103 phere ; and after this manner. Though the animal itself be heavier than air, the thread which it spins from its bowels is specifically lighter. This is its balloon* The spider, left to itself, would drop to the ground ; but being tied to its thread, both are supported. We have here a very peculiar provision : and to a contemplative eye it is a gratifying spectacle, to see this insect wafted... on her thread, sustained by a levity not her own, and traversing regions, which, if we examined only the body of the animal, might seem to have been forbidden to its nature. I must now crave the reader's permission to introduce into this place, for want of a better, an observation or two upon the tribe of animals, whether belonging to land or water, which are covered by shells. I. The shells of snails are a wonderful, a me- chanical, and, if one might so speak concerning * " Spiders, long before Montgolfier, nay, ever since the crea- tion, have been in the habit of sailing through the fields of ether in these air-light chariots I" The spider which produces gossamer is described by naturalists of the size of a pin's head, the buoyance of whose web carries them about, mounting them in the air, probably in search of food, which consists of effluvia of animal and vegetable substances.
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