Ants and Termites. 



and form a characteristic feature of the landscape. 

 These mounds may be dotted together in groups of low 

 conical form, or they may rise singly, like great earth- 



White Ant Hill. 



towers, their bare sides worn by the action of rain and 

 wind into strange and fantastic channels and groovings, 

 measuring some thirty or forty feet in diameter, and from 

 eight to fifteen feet in height. The Termite is not 



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