306 'November 1748. 



quitely. But as he obferved it he fhook them 

 out, and tied the pot with a thin ftring to a 

 nail which he had faftened in the ceiling ; fo 

 that the pot hung down by the ftring. A 

 lingle ant by chance remained in the pot : 

 this ant eat till it was fatisfied ; but when 

 it wanted to get offj it was under great con- 

 cern to find its way out : it ran about the 

 bottom of the pot, but in vain : at laft it 

 found after many attempts the way to get 

 to the ceiling by the ftring. After it was 

 come there, it ran to the wall, and from 

 thence to the ground. It had hardly beerii 

 away for half an hour, when a great fwarm 

 of ants came out, got up to the ceiling, 

 and crept along the ftring into the potj 

 and began to eat again : this they continued 

 till the treacle was all eaten : in the mean 

 time one fwarm running down the ftring, 

 and the other up. 



November the 12th. A man of fortune 

 who has long been in this province afterted, 

 that, by twenty years experience, he had 

 found a confirmation of what other people 

 have obferved with regard to the weather^ 

 viz. that the weather in winter was com- 

 monly foretold by that on the firft of No- 

 vember, old ftile, or twelfth new ftile ; if 

 that whole day be fair, the next winter 

 will bring but little rain and fnow along 



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