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ufually does on all others 5 and has xited Paflages 
from Pliny, Lucian , eyElian, Zoroafer , Origen , 
. 6^4 and Epiphanius, Jewish Rabbis , and y/nz- 
bians, all concurring in the Opinion, that Ants cut 
off the Heads of Grain, to prevent their germinating : 
But he confeffes, that the ancienter Greek Writers 
have made no fuch Obfervation of the Ants 5 nor 
any of them who lived before PI my, as far as he re- 
members. Very probably this Opinion arofe from 
what might have been obferved of thefe laborious 
In feds, in cutting afander with their Saws fuch 
Grains of Corn, or other Matters, which they might 
have Occafion to carry to their Nefts, but were too 
bulky 5 for that they cut off Grafs, and other Things, 
which they find in the Road to and from their Re- 
pofitories, our Author has obferved : And it is obfer- 
vabie, that the Hebrew Name of the Ant nbcn 
Nemala, from the Verb bo:i, Nclrnak which figni- 
fies to cut off, is ufed for cutting off Ears of Corn 
(Job, xxiv. ver. 24.*) 
But if we confider the two Texts, in the Book 
of Proverbs , cited by our Author, there is not the 
kaft Intimation in them of their laying up Corn 
in Store againft Winter. In chap . vi. ver . 8. it is 
faid, She provide th her meat in the fummer , and 
gather eth her food in the harveft: For, tho' the 
former Verb pnn Hekin fignifies to prepare, or difpofe 
in Order, and the latter -us, Jgar to colled, or gather 
together; 
* I might alfo have referred to the Theatrum univerfale omnium 
Animalium of Jonflon, publifhM by Dr. Ruyfch junior of Amgerdanu 
in 2 Volumes folio, Vol. II. p. 85. 
