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ants. These were composed of dried mud, arid were 

 sometimes ten or twelve feet high, and almost as hard 

 as stone. They ran up into points like church-spires, 

 and, on breaking off one of these, the busy workers 



NKST OF TERMITES, OB WHITE ANTS. 



could be seen inside in countless numbers. There is 

 seldom more than one female ant to a nest she being 

 little more than an animated egg-bag, four or five 

 inches long and one inch in diameter, looking like a 



