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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
observation, nor from seeing the Ants do something that 
looked a little like it, and then guessing the results. I have at 
all times watched the same ant-cities during the last twelve 
years, and I know that what I stated in my former letter is 
true. I visited the same cities yesterday, and found the crop 
of ant-rice growing finely, and exhibiting also the signs of high 
cultivation, and not a blade of any other kind of grass or seed 
was to be seen within twelve inches of the circular row of ant- 
rice/ 
