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dom. It is remarkable of thefe Ants, that in car¬ 
rying on their Employments they Form fo many 
Streets or different * Trails as are proportionable 
to the Size and Situation of their Colonies. If th e 
Inhabitants be very numerous, as it ufually 
happens in this Species, they extend their Streets 
to a considerable Length, (Forty Yards or more) 
and the Number of them {hall amount perhaps to 
four, befides feveral lefs Branches that ftrike off 
from the main Trails. Sometimes there is but one, 
fometimes two or more grand Streets, befides the 
little Allies, all which frequently vary in Length. 
In thefe Paths the Workers continually make their 
Progrefies to and from the Colony. And you may? 
with equal Pleafure and Certainty, obferve theVa- 
rietv of their Provifions, their Sedulity in feeking, 
and Method of bringing it Home. The f Traits 
* We find this Curiofity mentioned by the Antients, 
Silices itinere earum at tr it os ui dermis ; et in oper e 
femitam faffam, Plin. Nat. Hid. Lib. 11. cap. 29. 
By Virgil's Defcription they feern to be Ants of the 
fame Species as Ours. 
It nigrum campis agmen, prtedumque per herb as. 
ConveElant calle angufto , JEn. 4. 404. 
•j- Pars cigmina cogunt. 
CaJUgantque moras : opere omnis /emita ferret. 
Virg. JEn* 4. 406. 
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