CHAP. II.
Of their Colonies, Cells, ſubterraneous Channels; their Texture and Variety.
ANTS unite together in Colonies, which they form in ſuch Places and Situations as are moſt agreeable to their different Natures, and the Management of their Affairs.
The yellow and ſmall black Ants moſt frequently make Choice of thoſe little Eminencies caſt up by Moles, form whom they derive the Name of Mole-hills: But from the Habitation they afford theſe Creatures are more uſually 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 Rubbiſh. Very often they reſide in a diſtinct Part of the yellow Ant-Hills; are ſometimes if a Hill be ſmall and ſuitable to their Colony, which is not ſo numerous as the reſt, they occupy the whole.
