106 PERFECT SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. 
dibles. What was the precise object of these proceed- 
ings, whether sport or violence, I could not ascertain. I 
walked the same way on the following morning, but at 
an earlier hour, when only a few comers and goers were 
to be seen near the nest:” And soon leaving the place, 
I had no further opportunity to attend to them. 
And now having conducted you through every apart- 
ment of the formicary, and shown you its inhabitants in 
every light, I shall leave you to meditate on the extra- 
ordinary instincts with which their Creator has gifted 
them, reserving what I have to say on the other social 
insects for a future occasion. 
Iam, &c. 
