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Some account of New Holland

from the infinite number  myriads would come in an instant out of many holes & running over the hand tickle so as to be scarce endurable  Rumphius has an account of this very bulb & its ants in the 6th Vol. p.120. where he describes also another sort the ants of which are black & larger  the fourth sort were perfectly harmless  at least they provd so to us tho they resembled almost minutely the white ants of the East Indies  the most mischevous Insect I beleive known in the world  their architecture was however far superior to that of any other species  they had two kinds of Houses  one suspended on the Branches of trees  the other standing upright on the ground 
the first sort were generaly 3 or 4 times as large as a mans head  they were built of a brittle substance seemingly made of small parts of vegetables kneaded together with some glutinous matter  probably afforded by themselves  on breaking this outer crust innumerable cells appeard full of inhabitants in winding directions  communicating

 

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