O/ANTS, ; 9 
The Body is compofed of our Rings, and ter¬ 
minates in a Point. Each Ring is proportionably 
lefs,. except in the Red Ants, whofe firft Ring 
much exceeds any of the reft. The Xnfide of the 
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Body contains, befides the other Vifcera, a Bag 
of corroding Spirituous Liquor, which the Ant can 
at its Pleafure eje£t to a confiderable Diftance. 
The Red Species has alfo a Sting of the fame 
Contexture as a Bee, only in Miniature. With 
this it opens an Orifice in the Flefh, and after¬ 
wards injects a Venom which gives a (mart but 
momentary Pain. In other Ants I cannot difcovor 
any Sting; and therefore unlefs you allow them 
Time they are not fo venemous. They are ob¬ 
liged, firft of all, to bite or make a fmall Incifion 
with their Saws, and then eje£t fome of their cor¬ 
roding Liquor on the Wound, which has the like 
Effecft as the above. The Red Ants live more 
open and expofed to View, travel at greater Dis¬ 
tances from their Cells, are more bold than any 
of the others, and therefore a Weapon of this kind 
is ferviceable to them. 
It may be remarked that the Jet Ants have a 
peculiar difagreeable Smell, which, I fancy, is a 
great Prefervative to them againft an Enemy. 
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