. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 128 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. digging cautiously into a natural ant-hill, established upon tlie edge of a garden walk, we were enabled to obtain a pretty com- plete view of the interior structure. There were two stories, composed of large chambers, irregularly oval, communicating with each other by arched galleries, the walls of all which were smooth as if they had been passed over by a plasterer's trowel. MVRMELFON. AMPULEX. The floors of the chambers, we r
. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 128 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. digging cautiously into a natural ant-hill, established upon tlie edge of a garden walk, we were enabled to obtain a pretty com- plete view of the interior structure. There were two stories, composed of large chambers, irregularly oval, communicating with each other by arched galleries, the walls of all which were smooth as if they had been passed over by a plasterer's trowel. MVRMELFON. AMPULEX. The floors of the chambers, we remarked, were by no menns either horizontal or level, but all more or less sloped, and exhibiting in each chamber at least two slight depressions of an irregular sluipe. We left the under story of this nest untouched, with the notion that tlic ant might repair the upper galleries, of which we Iiad made a vertical section; but instead of doing Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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