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trusted solely to the race of auxiliaries, to 

 whose services they have become entitled by 

 the right of conquest. In times of peace the 

 Amazons are totally inactive, and dependent 

 on the labouring classes of the auxiliaries, 

 who feed and caress them, minister to all 

 their wants, and carry them wherever the 

 temptation of the air is most grateful. In a 

 word, they are gentlemen waited on by their 

 domestics, who appear to retain no sense of 

 the injury that has been done them by their 

 masters, but bear towards them the tender 

 affection of children towards their parents. 

 The more cruel relation of master and of 

 slave seems, indeed, to be entirely excluded 

 from this singular association of insects. 



Although many naturalists have already 

 studied the history of Ants, yet much dis- 

 cordance and obscurity has prevailed with re- 

 gard to many essential points in their econo- 

 my; a circumstance that has arisen from 

 their never ha\ing been able to see what was 

 going on in the interior of their nests, which 

 is the scene of the most important and inte- 

 resting features of their history. To M. Huber 

 belongs the merit of inventing an apparatus. 



