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unite together in Colonies, which they form in uch Places and Situations as are mot agreeable to their different Natures, and the Management of their Affairs.

The yellow and mall black Ants mot frequently make Choice of thoe little Eminencies cat up by Moles, form whom they derive the Name of Mole-hills: But from the Habitation they afford thee Creatures are more uually called Ant or Emmet Hills. Thus the Inconveniences produced by one Creature tend to the Service of another.

The Red Ants are to be met with under broad Stones, or other Rubbih. Very often they reide in a ditinct Part of the yellow Ant-Hills; are ometimes if a Hill be mall and uitable to their Colony, which is not o numerous as the ret, they occupy the whole. Rh