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the fish being obstructed in thare pasing up the several brakes that 

 leadeth to the several ponds. As spring pond, Long pond and seder 

 pond. Acording to your honors order, I have taken All the cears I 

 coold And I hope to good efect By reason of the plenty of cod & 

 hadock that have Byn this year, this was the fifth year that I have 

 tacken cear concerning sd fish passing up sd Bracks four days pr 

 year I have Bin up sd Bracks And wherupon several weares and 

 other in cumbranses one sd Bracks. I am informed that theare is a 

 brook that leadeth out of Ipsvvidg river to umphreys pond whar 

 Abundans of fish used to pas formerly And if your honors In your 

 wisdom see cas to order that afore it will Be A great Benefit not only 

 to this town But allso to the country. I haue tacken cear five years 

 last past the Select men toock of my rates on year But that is too 

 small Amotes to four days waden up the Bruckes to the small ponds. 

 That if your honors in your wisdom see fit to Alow Sumthug for the 

 managnmt in that mater your petitioner shall for ever pray. 

 Salem Jun y e 21. 1726. 



THOMAS RICH." 



"Its Considered by the Court that the petitioner be 

 further Impowered and allowed for the year ensuing to 

 remoue all obstructions in the Brooks as abovsaid." 



(Endorsed) "partly granted." 



Prof. E. S. MORSE gave some account of certain species 

 of ants which construct receptacles under ground for the 

 storage of their food, describing the manner in which 

 these were made ; also the ingenuity and skill displayed, 

 and the division of labor adopted by these ants in the 

 procuring of the food and in the other arrangements in 

 the management of their domestic affairs. 



He also described the habits of a family of spiders 

 known as the trap door spiders, who also construct their 

 domiciles under ground, which are tubular in shape and 

 composed of the web tilled in with the earth, and other 

 materials that are cemented together by a glutinous mat- 

 ter which they secrete. They have at the entrance a trap 

 door composed of fibres of the web filled with earth, bits 

 of leaves, lichens, etc., so as to be completely disguised. 

 The different species vary somewhat in the style of the 



