io4 Of A N T S. 
by obferving that after being carried for feme time. 
It was let go in afriendly Manner, and received no 
perfonal Injury. This Amufement, orwhateverTitle 
you pleafe to give it, is often repeated, particularly 
amongft the Hill-Ants, who are very fond of this 
ipcrtive Exercife. 
Hie Red Colonies are the only ones I could ever 
obferve to feed on their own Species. You may 
frequently difcern a Party, from five or fix, to 
twenty, furrounding one of their own Kind, or 
even Fraternity, and pulling it to Pieces. The 
Ant they attack is generally feeble, and of a 
languid Complexion, occafioned, perhaps, byfome 
Diforder or other Accident. 'This Species is, in 
many Inftances, the moft daring and venemous, 
as Experience will teach any that prefume to 
difcompofe their Settlements. We may from their 
bold and refolute Qualities imagine the * Ants 
tranf- 
* Jupiter being enamoured with JEgina the Daugh¬ 
ter of Afopus , to conceal his Paflion from. Juno , tranf- 
ported her into the Ifland OEnopia, where ftie was de¬ 
livered of JEacuSy who altered the Name of the Ille, 
and gave it that of his Mother JEgina . Juno difco- 
vering the Intrigue* to fatiate herRevenge depopulated 
the Ifland of its Inhabitants by a Peflilence, After¬ 
wards 
