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the fish being obstructed in tliare pasing up the several brakes that 

 leadeth to the several ponds. As spring pond, Long pond and - 

 pond. Acording to your honors order, 1 have taken All the cears I 

 coold And i hope to good efect P.v reason of the plenty of C< 



'• that have Byn this year, this was the fifth year that I have 

 tacken cear concerning sd fish parsing ap sd Brucks four days pr 

 year I have Bin up sd Brucks And wherupon several weaves and 

 other in cumbranses one sd Brucks. I am informed that theare is a 

 brook that leadeth out of Ipswidg river to umphreys pond whar 

 Abundans of fish used to pas formerly And if your honors In your 

 wisdom see cas to order that afore it will Be A greal Benefit not only 

 to this town Bui allsoto the country. I haue tacken cear live years 

 lasl pasl the Select men toock.of my rates on year But that is too 

 small Amotes to four days waden np the Bruckes to the small ponds. 

 That if your honors in your wisdom sec tit to Alow Sunithng for the 

 managmnt in that mater your petitioner shall for ever pray. 

 Salem Jim y° 21. 172G. 



Thomas Rich." 



"Its Considered by the Court that the petitioner be 

 further Impowered and allowed for the year ensuing to 

 reraoue all obstructions in the Brooks as abovsaid." 



(Endorsed) "partly granted." 



Prof. E. S. MonsE gave some account of certain species 

 of ants which construct receptacles under ground for the 

 storage of their food, describing the manner in which 

 these were made; also the ingenuity and skill displayed, 

 and the division of labor adopted by these ants in the 

 procuring of the food and in the other arrangements in 

 the management of their domestic affairs. 



He also described the habits of a family of spiders 

 known as the trap door spiders, who also construct their 

 domiciles under ground, which are tubular in shape and 

 composed of the web tilled in with the earth, and other 

 materials that are cemented together by a glutinous mat- 

 ter which they secrete. They have at the entrance a trap 

 door composed of fibres of the web filled with earth, bits 

 of leaves, lichens, etc., so as to be completely disguised. 

 The different species vary somewhat in the style iA' the 



