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After this, being aboixt two hours' journey from our town of Delft, 

 and going into a plantation, belonging to a gentleman's houfe, a 

 working man fliewed me feveral Ants' nells, namely, fome of the 

 red Ants of the fame fize with thofe in my garden, in which I found 

 a great number of eggs and maggots of different lizcs, and many 

 cryfales among them ; alfo, fome nells of black Ants, which ap- 

 peared to be propagated in the fame manner as I have before def- 

 cribed refpedling them. But in thefe black Ants' nells, I found no 

 eggs nor maggots, except fome maggots employed in fpinning their 

 cafes, and fome cryfales in the cafes or webs. I alfo here found 

 a third fort of Ants, of a bright yellow colour; thefe were as fmall as 

 the black Ants, and in them I could not difcover any fting. The 

 maggots that came out of the eggs of thefe Ants, when brought to 

 their full growth, changed into Ants without Ipinning a web, in like 

 manner as I have faid of the red Ants. 



For my ftill farther fatisfadion, I took out of my garden two 

 feveral Ants' nefts, and the earth which contained the moll: Ants, 

 with their eggs, maggots, and cryfales mixed ; thefe I put into a 

 glafs about nine inches deep, and eight inches in circumference, 

 on which I put a glafs cover, and gave the Ants for food fome 

 fugar, a piece of a pear, and fome cherries • placing the glafs upon 

 my delk, in order, if poffible, to difcover the manner in which the 

 Ants fed their maggots ; but thefe the Ants carried away, and con- 

 cealed under the earth in the bcft manner they w'ere able, lb that I 

 could get a light of but few of them at a time. But, upon obferv- 

 ing how motionlefs the maggots lay, I law, that though lliaken 

 about or carried by the Ants from place to place, or whether lying 

 in heaps or fingly, and no Ants near them, they did not llir them- 

 felves in the leall. 



And as I frequently faw an Ant with its mouth clofe to the head 

 or mouth of a maggot, and in that pollure lie motionlefs for a time, 

 I confidered that probably one or more of tlie organs which the 

 Ant has in its mouth, might be formed for no other end than to 



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