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O/ANTS, 
CHAP II. 
I 
Of their Colonies , Cells , fulterraneous Chan¬ 
nels *, their ST exture and Variety . 
A NTS unite together in Colonies, which 
they form in fuch Places and Situations as 
are moft agreeable to their different Natures, and 
the Management of their Affairs. 
The yellow and fmall black Ants moft frequent® 
ly make Choice of thofe little Eminencies call up 
by Moles, from whom they derive the Name of 
Mole-hills: But from the Habitation they afford 
thefe Creatures are more ufually called Ant or 
Emmet Hills. Thus the Inconveniences produced 
by one Creature tend to the Service of another. 
The Red Ants are to be met with under broad 
k _ v . 
Stones, or other Rubbifh. Very often they refide 
in a diftindl Part of the yellow Ant-Hills; and fome- 
times if a Hill be fmall and fuitable to their Co¬ 
lony, which is not fo numerous as the reft, they 
occupy the whole. 
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The 
