® - ARCHITECTURE OF ANTS. 
I hope, in the course of the present 
work, to bring the reader to conceive 
what degree of intelligence we may 
grant these insects, whose faculties, po- 
lice, and sagacity, have been, by some 
authors, as much over-rated as by others 
not duly appreciated. 
The three modes of’ building, of which 
I have just spoken, admit of numerous 
modifications, each species of ant being 
endowed with some peculiar talent. I 
shall mention in what they differ, after 
describing the general outline of their 
architecture, if we may express, by the 
same term, the simple and rude work of 
an insect, and an art brought to perfec- 
tion by the hands of man. ah 
1, ART OF BUILDING AMONG THE FALLOW 
ANTS. 
The fallow ant is that ant which forms 
in the woods those hillocks so remarkable 
for their extent. It admits of easy ob- 
servation, from its being above the mid- 
dle size, from its operations being carried 
