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ving dirt or collecting food, but have several limes observed the others 

 carrying them from one part of the nest to another. 



Some time after, the red ants attacked another settlement of the 

 blacks and carried off the jmpae^ or undisclosed young. 



On a subsequent occasion, the following scenes were witnessed. A 

 long line of red ants was seen traveling in, straight course, but in both 

 directions. I went to the nest and found the colony in a very unsettled 

 condition and great excitement prevailed. There was a constant train 

 of them pouring in, laden either with pupae or young ants, or with full 

 grown ants of a different species, which were black. As soon as they had 

 arrived, they deposited their loads and immediately set off again in haste. 



I followed the train from the nest, and at a considerable distance 

 through the garden in an orchard, found that they were attacking a col- 

 ony of black ants. There was a terrible fight. While some were en- 

 gaged in grappling with the rightful owners, others were pillaging the 

 settlement and carrying ofl" the defenceless young. This scene was 

 continued until night. About noon next day, the fight was resumed and 

 the darkness alone suspended it. 



I counted the number that passed a certain point in a minute, inclu- 

 ding those going and returning, and on making an estimate, I found that 

 during the seven hours of the first day they had been thus occupied, 

 they must have made 21,000 passages between the two settlements, a- 

 mounting altogether to a distance of more than 477 miles. 



RusTicus. 



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Almost every part of animated nature, as it presents itself to the view, 

 without the aid of instruments, is referred to in the Scriptures, for vari- 

 ous purposes. The Bible, therefore, in the department of Natural His- 

 tory furnishes materials exceedingly rich and instructive, which have 

 attracted the attention of the philologist, the naturalist and the Commen- 

 tator. Bochart's work entitled ''■Hierozoicon ; sive de animalibus S. 

 Scripturae," is well known to the learned, and Dr. Harris' Natural His- 

 tory of the Bible is in many hands. This latter work, which is easily 

 accessible and which is the result of a considerable range of investiga- 

 tion, should be in the possession of every Student of the Bible, who 

 may not be able to procure other works. In it will be found evidence 

 that the Sacred writers — as was said of one of them — "Spake of trees, 

 from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the Hyssop that 

 springeth out of tlie wall ; he spake also of beasts and of fowl, and of 

 creeping things, and of fishes," K. 



