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Thirsty Sound

trees were like those in the last bay both in leaf & producing a very small proportion of Gum, on the branches of them & other trees were large ants nests made of Clay as big as a bushel  something like to those describd in Sr Hans Sloanes Hist of Jamaica Voll II: p.221. t. 258. but not so smooth  the ants also were small & had whitish abdomens: in another species of tree Xanthoxiloides mite  a small sorties of black ants had bord all the twigs & livd in quantities in the hollow part where the pith should be  the tree nevertheless flourishing & bearing leaves & flowers upon those very branches as freely & well as upon others that were sound. Insects in general were plentifull  Butterflies especialy  of one sort of these much like P. Similis Linn. The air was for the space of 3 or 4 acres crowded with them to a wonderfull degree  the eye could not be turnd in any direction without seeing milions & yet every branch & twig was almost coverd with those that sat still  of these we took as many as we chose

 

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