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Five Species of Ants have occurred to the Obfer 
vation of our Author, i. The Hill Ant, vulgarly 
called the Horfe-Ant. 2. The Jet Ant. 3. The red 
Ant. 4. The common yellow Ant. 5. The fmall 
black Ant. 
Having deferibed the Size and Colour of thefe, he 
proceeds to deferibe the Structure and nice Mechanilm 
of Ants with great Accuracy 5 obferving, that, be* 
Tides the Vifcera , there is in the Body of Ants a Bag 
of corroding Tpirituous Liquor, -which. they can ejed 
to a confiderable Diftance at Pleafure. This Parti- 
cular has alfo been obferved by other Writers. 
He fays, he has met with a Ligament in the red 
Ant, which uniteth the Bread and Body, confiding 
of two Lobes fomewhat round ; but in other Ants 
there appears but one Lobe, which rifes higher, and 
is broader, than the Lobes in the red. It is this Spe- 
cies of red Ants, which he has obferved to have a 
Sting, of the fame Contexture with that of a Bee, 
in Miniature : In other Ants he has met with no 
Sting; but they bite, or make a fmall Incifion, with 
their Saws, ejeding fome of the afore mention'd cor- 
roding Liquor, &c. The red Ants, which are fur* 
nilhed with a Sting, he obferves live more open, 
and arc more bold than any of the others ; and there- 
fore fuch a Weapon is ferviccable to them. 
The Jet- Ants, he informs us, have a peculiar difagree- 
ablc Smell, which he imagines may be a great Preferva- 
tivc to them 3gaind an Enemy 5 and that the Spirit 
which all Ants ejed is verydrong, afFcding at a fmall 
Diftanccin the fame manner as Spirits of Hartshorn. 
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