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Of ANTS. 
It may be agreeable next to give fuch a De- 
fcription as I have been able to form of the Admi¬ 
rable Strudlure and nice Mechanifm of Ants. This 
will appear the more wonderful if we confider their 
principal Divifions, and the feveral Parts with 
which each of them is adorned. 
The Head of an Ant is rather oblong than 
round. The Face or Front of it is full; the un¬ 
der part Flat. It is provided with a double Saw, 
a Mouth, a pair of Antennae, or Horns; two 
Eyes, and a Neck which joins it to the Bread:. 
The double Saw is a hard bony Subftancc, and 
in Shape not altogether unlike the top part of a 
LobftePs Claw. It confifts of two Saws placed 
one on each fide of the Mouth. They have four 
or five Teeth in a Saw, and terminate in a fine 
Hook bending inwards and correfponding to each 
other. They play from Right to Left, and are 
capable of being extended to fome difiance. By 
the wife Contrivance of this implement the Crea¬ 
ture is enabled to form its Cells, carry Provifions, 
transfer the Young to different Places, remove 
the Dead, or what elfe may be prejudicial to it. 
The 
