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4 It may be agreeable next to give uch a Decription as I have been able to form of the Admirable Structure and nice Mechanim of Ants. This will appear the more wonderful if we conider their principal Diviions, and the everal 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 under part Flat. It is provided with a double Saw, a Mouth, a pair of Antennæ, or Horns; two Eyes, and a Neck which joins it to the Breat

The double Saw is a hard bony Subtance, and in Shape not altogether unlike the top part of a Lobter's Claw. It conits of two Saws place one on each ide of the Mouth. They have four or five Teeth in a Saw, and terminate in a fine Hook bending inwards and correponding to each other. They play from Right to Left, and are capable of being extended to ome ditance. By the wie Contrivance of this Implement the Creature is enabled to form its Cells, carry Proviions, transfer the Young to different Places, remove the Dead, or what ele may be prejudicial of it. The