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CONCLUSION. 



labours of insects for comfort, convenience, and 

 health. It becomes us then to receive not un- 

 thankfully the benefits they confer, while we view 

 them as the agents of a higher power, under whose 

 direction they work with ceaseless activity in their 

 humble sphere, and produce results, not less 

 astonishing in themselves, than valuable and bene- 

 ficial to mankind. 



