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return to the tewace, I destroyed tlieir old 

 nest, pouring boiling water into the hole, to 

 kill those Ants that remained in it. In the 

 next place, I filled the new hole with the 

 Ants that were in the bottle ; but none of 

 them would stay in it. They went away in 

 less than two hours; which made me be- 

 lieve, that it was impossible to make a fourth 

 settlement in my box. 



Two or three days after, going acci- 

 dentally over the terrace, I was much sur* 

 prised to see the Ants nest which I had de- 

 stroyed, very artfully repaired. I resolved 

 to destroy it entirely, and to settle those Ants 

 in my box. To succeed in my design, I put 

 some gunpowder and brimstone into their 

 hole, and sprung a mine, whereby the whole 

 nest was overthrown ; and then I carried as 

 many Ants as I could get into the place 

 which I designed for them. It happened to 

 be a very rainy day, and it rained all night, 

 and therefore they remained in the new hole 

 all that time. In the morning, when the 

 rain was over, most of them went to repair 

 their old habitation ; but finding it imprac- 

 ticable, by reason of the smell of the powder 



