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CHAP. VI. 
OF THE RELATION OF ANTS WITH THE 
PUCERONS AND GALL INSECTS. 
1, Of the Antennal Language. 
Ler us return to the important ques- 
tion, relative to the language of ants. 
If they have a language, I cannot give 
too many proofs of it; if I labour under 
an error, the following facts, in what- 
ever manner they may be explained, will 
plead my excuse. 
Imagining that I have not presumed 
too much upon the justness of my 
conclusions, I have been under the ne- 
cessity of admitting, that ants possess the 
means of communicating their different 
impressions, and I think this faculty con- 
