It’s found in other Parts of _Italy_, and even in the Isle of _Corsica_; but those of _Apulia_, ’tis said, are only dangerous; though I think to have read something like it in _Persia_, where there is an Insect like a Spider, about two Inches round, which the _Holstein_ Ambassadors suppose to be the _Latin Stellio_, and the _Italian Tarantula_: It lets its Poison fall like a Drop of Water, which causes an insupportable Pain in that Part ... immediately causes a profound Sleep, from which the Patient is not to be recovered, but by crushing one of the same Creatures upon the Wound; or, if this can’t be had, by pouring as much Milk down his Throat as they can, and then put him on an Engine, which they turn round with great Violence, till by that violent Agitation, his Stomach discharges the Milk, which appears greenish, because of the Poison. Those who are cured thus, have some Remnant of the Pain once a Year, about the same Season[317]. Footnote 317: _Voyages and Travels_ of the Ambass. of _Freder._ Duke of _Holstein_. But to return to _Italy_; ’tis observable, that it hurts no where but in _Apulia_, and that only in Summer, especially in the _Canicular-Days_, so called from _Canicula_, that signifies a Dog; hence _Dog-Star_, which rises cosmically with the Sun the 19th of _July_, and is supposed to be the brightest, as well as the largest Star in the Firmament. [Illustration: _Plate 7^{th}_ ] The _Dog-Days_ denote certain Days before and after the Rising of this Star, to whose Appearance the Antients ascrib’d terrible Effects: the very first Day it appears, they say (but without Reason) the Sea becomes boisterous and boils like a Cauldron, produces Variety of Distempers, sours Wine, and Dogs grow mad.... The _Romans_, dreading the Indignation of this Star, sacrificed a Dog every Year to it, (_viz._ at its first Appearance in our Hemisphere) to appease its Rage against Mortals. In Winter, this _Italian_ Spider lurks in Caverns, and solitary Places; and if it happens to bite, hurts not: There it lives in a drowsy Posture, and keeps _Lent_ till Summer; when the whole Tribe creeps out, and disperse themselves over that pleasant Land; and Wo to the Body asleep, and bare Legs, in Corn-Fields. Those on the Plains are much to be feared, the Air being hotter there than on the Mountains, where their Bite is not dangerous, the Solar Rays not being so strong in those Heights: and what is yet more surprizing, is, that if they wound any out of _Apulia_, though in places not remote from it, the Wounded receive no deadly Hurt[318]. Footnote 318: _Baglivii de Anatome, Morsu & Effect. Tarantulæ Dissertatio_ i. p. 27. & cap. v. p. 20. When it bites, the Pain resembles that given by the Sting of a _Bee_, and is attended with various Symptoms, according to their different Natures: The _Northern Tarantula_ is the most terrible; those that are inclin’d to the _white Colour_ are not so dangerous; the spotted differs from both.