ADVERTISEMENT. 
Since the following pages were put 
to the press, the Translator has been 
favoured with a letter from the Author, 
of which the following is an extract : — 
«Since the publication of my ‘ Re- 
searches into the Natural History of 
Indigenous Ants,’ I have frequently re- 
witnessed what I there describe ; so that 
I can truly affirm, I have neither been led 
aside by a fertile imagination, nor by a 
love of the marvellous. 
** Some of these facts appear to many 
of so romantic a nature, that I am happy 
in not being the only person who has 
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