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ment of my last letter I promised to introduce you to 

 insects whose labours produced edifices more astonishing 

 than those of the mightiest Egyptian monarchs, the py- 

 ramids, my promise, whatever you then thought of it, 

 was the reverse of hyperbolical. 



I am, &c. 



inch in stature, their edifice is upwards of 500 times the height of 

 the builders ; which, supposing them of human dimensions, would 

 be more than half a mile. The shaft of the Roman aqueducts was 

 lofty enough to permit a man on horseback to travel in them. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME, 



