Island of Dominica.
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Ants are very numerous in Dominica, and are of ſeveral ſorts; as the large black ant, the brown ant, the red ant, the flying ant, and the wood ant. The latter is the moſt troubleſome, as they are very deſtructive to trees, and the timber in houſes; which they will reduce to duſt in a ſhort time, if ſuffered to take up their abode therein. The beſt method to prevent this is, to rub the timber with tar or turpentine, which hinders their attacking it, or, if already there, to ſprinkle arſenic in their neſts, which kills them.
The other ſorts of ants are injurious only to particular articles, as new ſown ſeed, the buds and fruit of trees, eſpecially in dry ſeaſons, when ſometimes they cover the ground in ſuch numbers, as is truly aſtoniſhing.
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