AXT COMMUNITIES 



table 1 matter, and perforated from top to bottom and 

 from side to side with numberless tubes, could be made 

 to stand the stress of mountain weather rains and 

 floods, frosts and snows was marvellous. The inference 



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Fig. 29 SECTIONAL VIEW OF ANT-MOUNDS 



seems inevitable that some sort of hardening material 

 must have been used secreted from the jaws as saliva, 

 or extruded from the stinging organs at least upon 

 the inner surface of the galleries. But, however done, 



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