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 uually fills up and ecures their holes from the entrance of the ants. Yet having myelf removed that impediment, by clearing away the dung, and putting a few ants to the hole, on going to the place ome time after, I have een them collected in great numbers, all buily employed carrying away in their mouths pieces of the borer, whom they had ferretted out of its hole and killed.

Centipedes, called by the Englih "Forty legs," and corpions, are numerous in this iland, efpecially in the woods, and in old houes. Of the former are often een ome that will meaure eight or nine inches in length, and thick in proportion; but the generality of them do not exceed three inches long. They are very harmles, except when meddled with; neither then is their bite, or the ting of the corpion of this country, o dangerous, as in many other Wet India iflands. They