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English Ants. 
CHAP. I. 
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A Defer ip t ion of Ants in general , their va¬ 
rious Sorts, Colour and Structure of their 
Parts. 
HE* Ant is an Infect compofed of 
three principal Divifions, the Head, 
Breaft, and Body ; which are con¬ 
nected together by Ligaments for¬ 
med with equal Curiofity and Wif- 
dom. Each of thefe Divifions is alfo furnifhed with 
feveral Parts that tend either to the Ufe or Orna- 
* They are alfo called Pifmires, and vulgarly Em¬ 
mets. Pifmire is a Danijh word compounded of Paid 
and myre, (Saxon myjia) and intimates fuch Ants a 
refide in Hillocks. Emmet is derived from Saxon, and 
fignifies, as the word Ant likewife does, thofe which 
live under Stones, or in old Ruins. 
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