NATURAL HISTORY. 
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man, who aflumes to himfelf the title and 
confequence of Lord of the creation. Each 
ant has its talk afligned it ; whilli: one re- 
moves a particle of mould, another is re- 
turning home to work. 'I hey never think 
of eating, until all their talk is performed. 
Within their common, but fubterraneous 
hall, which is about a foot deep, they affein- 
ble, from their focial communities, llielter 
themfelves from bad weather, depofit their 
eggs, and preferve their aurelias ; which, re- 
fembling grains of corn, as was obferved be- 
fore, has caufed many to millake them for 
their granaries. 
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