1064. Pilg., iii. 975.

1065. Cuv. An. King.—Ins., i. 163.

1066. Pilg., v. 542.

1067. Wand. and Adv. in S. Africa, i. 266.

1068. Kolb. Trav., ii. 179. Astley’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., iii. 352.

1069. Pilg., iii. 1133.

1070. Ibid., iii. 975.

1071. Wanley’s Wonders, ii. 373.

1072. Dampier’s Voy., iii. 331. Lond. 1729.

1073. Dobriz., ii. 396. Southey’s Com. Place Bk., 2d S. p. 527.

1074. Cuvier, An. Kingd.—Ins., i. 163.

1075. Southey’s Com. Place Bk., 4th S. p. 439.

1076. Thierry and Theod., A. v. Sc. 1.

1077. James’s Med. Dict.

1078. Gent. Mag., xvi. 534.

1079. Harleian Miscel., vii. 435.

1080. Shaw, Zool., vi. 454.

1081. Nat. Hist., xxix. 6 (75).

1082. Chambers’ Pop. Rhymes of Scotl., p. 282–3. Edit. of 1841, p. 243.

1083. Properly the second Class of the sub-kingdom Articulata.

1084. Chambers’ Book of Days, i. 687.

1085. Nat. Hist., xx. 12.

1086. Cf. Pliny, x. 12; and Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., p. 205.

1087. B. i. ch. 1.

1088. Hist. of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, p. 753.—Scorpions are bred “from the carkass of the crocodile, as Antigonus affirms, lib. de mirab. hist. cong. 24. For in Archelaus there is an epigram of a certain Egyptian in these words:

In English:

Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., p. 208. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1052.

1089. Qua supra, p. 685.

1090. Qua supra, p. 689.

1091. Ibid., p. 207. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1051.

1092. Ibid., p. 754.

1093. Andrew’s Anecdotes, p. 427.

1094. Nat. Hist., xi. 25. Pliny here probably alludes to the Panorpis, or Scorpion-fly, the abdomen of which terminates in a forceps, which resembles the tail of the Scorpion.

1095. Nat. Hist., xi. 25.

1096. “Scorpion’s tail.” Dioscorides gives this name to the Helioscopium, or great Heliotropium.

1097. Nat. Hist., xxii. 29.

1098. “Two.”

1099. Nat. Hist., xxviii. 5.

1100. The red arsenic of the Greeks was called by this name.—Matthiol, vi. 81.

1101. This prescription is given at the present day in Italy and the Levant.

1102. Zoroaster also mentions this. Vide Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 194.

1103. Pliny relates the same story, Nat. Hist., xxviii. 10 (42); also Zoroaster, qua supra.

1104. Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 146–8.

1105. Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., 210–215. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 1053–7.

1106. Campbell’s Travels in S. Africa, p. 325.

1107. Nat. Hist., viii. 29 (43).

1108. Churchill’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., i. 212.

1109. Ibid.

1110. Ibid., v. 221.

1111. Pinkerton’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., ix. 261.

1112. Ibid., vii. 298.

1113. Ibid., xiv. 348.

1114. Churchill’s Coll. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 316.

1115. Wilkinson’s Anct. Egypt., v. 52, 254.

1116. Ælian, xvi. 41, and xii. 38. Wilkinson’s Anct. Egypt., v. 254.

1117. Wanley’s Wonders, ii. 459.

1118. Autobiog., Lond. 1858, p. 304–5.

1119. Prescribed by Galen, Pliny, Lanfrankus, etc.

1120. Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 757.

1121. So also Manardus.—Moufet, p. 210. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1053.

1122. Ibid.

1123. Asiatic Miscellany, ii. 451.

1124. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 755–6.

1125. Topsel’s Trans.—Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 1058.

1126. Chronicles, i. 385.

1127. Keddie’s Cyclop. of Anecd., p. 288.

1128. Chamb. Misc., vol. xi. No. 100. Compare this story with that of Timour and the Ant.

1129. Ockley’s Hist. of the Saracens, i. 36.

1130. Lives of the Saints, i. 177–8. Cf. Wanley’s Wonders, ii. 402.

1131. Bucke on Nature, ii. 103.

1132. Hist. de la Mus., i. 321. Hawkins’ Hist. of Music, iii. 117, note.

1133. Biogr. Univers., tome xxxiii. See also Arvine’s Anecdotes, p. 402.

To this account, in the Hist. of Insects printed by John Murray, 1830, i. 269, is added: “The governor of the Bastile hearing that this unfortunate prisoner had found a solace in the society of a Spider, paid Pelisson a visit, desiring to see the manœuvres of the insect. The Basque struck up his notes, the Spider instantly came to be fed by his friend; but the moment it appeared on the floor of the cell, the governor placed his foot on its body, and crushed it to death.”

1134. The Mirror, xxvii. 69.

1135. Hone’s Ev. Day Book, i. 334.

1136. Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature.

1137. Quart. Rev. for Jan. 1844.

1138. This passage from Pliny is thus translated by Bostock and Riley: “Presages are also drawn from the Spider, for when a river is about to swell, it will suspend its web higher than usual. In calm weather these insects do not spin, but when it is cloudy they do, and hence it is, that a great number of cobwebs is a sure sign of showery weather.”—Nat. Hist., xi. 24 (28). Trans., iii. 28.

1139. Brande’s Pop. Antiq., iii. 223.

1140. Ev. Day Bk., i. 931. Quot. also in Chamb. Journ., 1st Ser., vi. 95.

1141. Paus. Hist. of Greece, B. 9, c. 6.

1142. Fosbr. Encycl. of Antiq.

1143. Jamieson’s Scottish Dict.

1144. Brande’s Pop. Antiq., iii. 223.

1145. N. and Q., iii. 3.

1146. Worthies, p. 58. Pt. II. Ed. 1662.

1147. N. and Q., ii. 165.

1148. Aulul., A. i. Sc. 3.

1149. Thorpe’s North. Antiq., iii. 329.

1150. N. and Q., 2d ed. iv. 298.

1151. Ibid., iv. 377.

1152. Gent. Mag., June, 1771, xli. 251.

1153. N. and Q., 2d ed. iv. 523.

1154. Ibid., iv. 421.

1155. Ibid., iv. 298.

1156. Vulg. Err., B. iii. c. 277. Works, ii. 527.

1157. Pliny says the Spider, poised in its web, will throw itself upon the head of a serpent as it lies stretched beneath the shade of the tree where it has built, and with its bite pierce its brain; such is the shock, he continues, that the creature will hiss from time to time, and then, seized with vertigo, coil round and round, while it finds itself unable to take to flight, or so much as to break the web of the Spider, as it hangs suspended above; this scene, he concludes, only ends with its death.—Nat. Hist., x. 95.

1158. Browne’s Works, ii. 524, note.

1159. Med. Dict., sub Araneus.

1160. Univers. Hist., i. 48, also Gent. Mag., xli. 400.

1161. Trav., p. 322, and Astley’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 726. Bosman says this “was the greatest piece of ignorance and stupidity he observed in the negroes.”

1162. Churchill’s Col. of V. and T., v. 222.

1163. N. and Q., vii. 431.

1164. Chamb. Misc., vol. xi. No. 100.

1165. Ibid.

1166. The Mirror, xxvii. 69.

1167. B. 7, c. xv. p. 665. Printed 1613.

1168. Eliz. Cook’s Journ., vii. 378.

1169. Wanley’s Wonders, i. 20.

1170. Silliman’s Journal, xxvii. 307–10.

1171. Annual of Sci. Disc., 1862, p. 335.

1172. Nat. Hist. of Selborne, p. 285.

1173. Hone’s Ev. Day Bk., p. 1332.

1174. Nat. Hist., ii. 54. Holl. Trans., p. 27. F.

1175. Faerie Queene, B. 2, c. xii. s. 77.

1176. Seasons: Summer, 1. 1209.

1177. Emblems, p. 375.

1178. Blackmore, Prince Arthur.

1179. Quot. in the Athenæum, v. 126.

1180. Jamieson’s Scot. Dict., iv. 138.

1181. Keightley’s Fairy Mythol., p. 514.

1182. Microgr., p. 202. It has been objected, say Kirby and Spence, to the excellent primitive writer, Clemens Romanus, that he believed the absurd fable of the phœnix. But surely this may be allowed for in him, who was no naturalist, when a scientific natural philosopher could believe that the clouds are made of Spiders’ web!—Introd., ii. 331, note.

1183. James’s Med. Dict.

1184. Ibid.

1185. James’s Med. Dict.

1186. Harris’s Coll. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 586–7.

1187. Ibid.

1188. Treasvrie of Anct. and Mod. Times, p. 393.

1189. Boyle’s Works, ii. 181–2.

1190. Astley’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., vi. 607.

1191. Pinkerton’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., vii. 299.

1192. Astley’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., vi. 656.

1193. B. 7, c. 15, p. 664. Printed 1613.

1194. Diod., B. 3, c. 2.

1195. Strabo, B. 16, c. 6, § 13.

1196. Fosbr. Encyc. of Antiq., ii. 738.

1197. Sloane’s Hist. of Jamaica, ii. 195.

1198. Damp. Voy. Camp., p. 64.

1199. Harris’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 242. Cf. Smith’s Nature and Art, x. 257.

1200. Travels, i. 201.

1201. Voyage à la recherche de la Perouse, ii. 240. K. & S. Introd., i. 311.

1202. New Amer. Cyclop.

1203. Trav. in Africa. Bucke on Nature, ii. 297.

1204. Pinkerton’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., ix. 612.

1205. Hist. of West Indies, p. 301.

1206. Reaum., ii. 342. K. & S. Introd., i. 311.

1207. Phil. Trans. Southey’s Com. Place Bk., 3d S. p. 731. Shaw, Nat. Misc.

1208. Moufet, Theatr. Ins., p. 220. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 789, 1067. Wanley’s Wonders, ii. 459.

1209. Biogr. Univers., tome xxiii. p. 230, note.

1210. Rösel, iv. 257. K. & S. Introd., i. 311.

1211. Wanley’s Wonders, ii. 459.

1212. Andrew’s Anecd., p. 37. App.

1213. Nat. Hist., xxix. 27. Bost. & Riley.

1214. Ibid.

1215. Nat. Hist., xxix. 38.

1216. Ibid., xxix. 39.

1217. Ibid., xxix. 36.

1218. Staple of News, A. ii. Sc. 1, vol. v. p. 219. Lond. 1816. “A Spider is usually given to monkeys, and is esteemed a sovereign remedy for the disorders those animals are principally subject to.”—James’s Med. Dict. Spiders are also fed to mocking-birds, not only as food, but also as an aperient.

1219. Mid. Night’s Dream, Act iii. Sc. 1.

1220. Vide Eventful Life of a Soldier. Edinbg. 1852.

1221. N. and Q., 2d ed. x. 138.

1222. Elements of Mat. Med. and Therap., Philad. 1825.

1223. Chamb. Bk. of Days, i. 732.

1224. Grah. Domest. Med.

1225. Thorpe’s North. Mythol., iii. 329.

1226. Brand’s Pop. Antiq., iii. 287.

1227. James’s Med. Dict.

1228. Geoffroy’s Substances used in Med., p. 383.

1229. Moufet, Theatr. Insect., p. 237. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 1073.

1230. Nat. Hist., xxix. 27.

1231. Miscellanies, p. 138.

1232. Vide Hist. and Mem. de l’Acad. Royale des Sciences, ann. 1710; Dissert. by M. Bon, Sur l’utilité de la soye des Arraignées, 8vo. Also, Bancroft on Permanent Colors, i. 101; and Shaw’s Nat. Hist., vi. 481.

1233. New Amer. Cyclop.

1234. Voy. dans l’Amer. Merid., i. 212. K. and S. Introd., i. 337.

1235. Naturalist in Bermuda, p. 126.

1236. Atlantic Monthly, June, 1858, p. 92.

1237. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., ii. 280. K. and S. Introd., i. 337, note.

1238. Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 778.

1239. Theatr. Ins., p. 235. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1072.

1240. Ins. Archit., p. 7.

1241. Swammerdam, Hist. of Ins., p. 5.

1242. Garasse, Recherches des Recherches de M. Estiene Pasquier, p. 357. Southey’s Com. Place Bk., 3d S. p. 282.