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c former, or among the timbers of the other ; making regular vaulted 



them from the weather in their marches ; 



of 



channels along the roads, to r ._. , 



which, as well as the nefts, are built of particles eroded from different timbers, 



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mixed up with mud, and fome other ingredient that prevents their 



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ved by the rains. The nefts are very large, and under an even furface, are di- 

 vided into a thoufand fmall regular cells, with convenient intercourfes through 



the whole. Thefe infects are very trouhlefome in the rainy feafons, and frequently 



deftroy moft of the timbers among which they build, as well as books, trunk?, 

 papers, £fc. that come then in their way. They fhew us a mod beautiful 



" feed alike, each amitirig cheer- 



example of a commonwealth, where all work and 

 fully in the common caufe. 



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FORMICA 3. Domejiica omnivora. 

 Thefe infects are very common in Ja 



The Ant. 



(7, and frequent about mod of 



houfe 





: they 



ftirring 



very voracious, and endeavour to have a part 



of every thing 



FORMICA 4. Minima faccarivora. The Sugar- Ant. 

 Thefe infects are extremely fmall, and will creep thro' any crevice to get 



at 



fu°;ar 



of which they are great lovers, as well th 



foregoing. 



The only 



effectual way of keeping them off, is to put whatever you intend to preferve 

 on a ftand placed in a bafon of water; and even here, you may fometimes 

 obferve thofe that are drowned in the attempt, made ufe of as a float for the 



others to get over. If you hang a fugar-box out of the way, you may for a 



but 



when 



the 



one gets to it, either by chance 

 ants in the neighbourhood there 



time preferve it from thefe infects 



or otherways, you may be fure to fee all 



foon after; fo that they feem to hold it as a maxim not to mifs the prefent 



opportunity, but to make it general, by giving immediate notice to the whole 



community. 





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r TT^ ^^ productions of this tribe were always found not only ufeful to mankind 



in general; but fo very curious in their forms, parts, and mechanifms, that 

 they have, at all times, engaged the attention of the writers of Natural Hiflory: 

 and vet the difficulty that attends the bringing of them under a juft examination; 



and the impoffibility of knowing their ordinary actions, or examining many of their 

 mechanical powers, have rendered this part of the fcience extremely imper- 

 fect, until that happy genius^ the accurate Artedius, had applied himfelf to the 

 ftudy of it ; and with inconceivable pains and difficulties brought it to a ftate 



of perfection, equal, if not fuperior, to that of moft other parts of natural know- 



me errors or inaccuracies, they are fure to 



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And if we find him to have fo 



depend on the credit he was fometimes obliged to aive to 



the 



writings 



of others, 



where it was impoflible for him to be an eye-witnefs himfelf. 



The beautiful order in which that ingenious author has ranged the productions 

 of this clafs in general, engaged me to difpofe the nines of Jamaica in the fame 



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er, which I mall, with him, divide into the five following claffes, viz. 



1. Suck 



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