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" ... nut. The animals themselves are very small, not more than half as big as the common red ant in England. They had stings, but scarcely force enough to make them felt : They had, however, a power of tormenting us in an equal, if not... "
Insect Architecture - Page 285
by James Rennie - 1830 - 420 pages
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An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present ..., Volume 2

1775 - 674 pages
...; for the moment we handled the root, they fwarmed from innumerable holes, and running about thofe parts of the body that were uncovered, produced a...titillation more intolerable than pain, except it is increafed to great violence. Rumphius has alfo given an account of this bulb and its inhabitants, vol....
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Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 3

William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...never cut one of these roots that was not inhabited, though somt were not bigger than a hazle nut. The animals themselves are very small, not more than...pain, except it is increased to great violence*." THE SUGAR-ANTf. These ants, which took their name from their ruinous effects on the sugar-cane, first made...
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Amphibious animals

William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...the moment we handled the root, they swarmed from innumerable holes, and, running about those pads of the body that were uncovered, produced a titillation...pain, except it is increased to great violence*. " THE SUGAR-ANT f. These Ants, which took their name from their ruinous effects on the sugar-cane, first...
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A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged ..., Issue 24

General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...scarcely force enough to make them felt : They had, however, a power of tormenting us in an equal, if not a greater degree ; for the moment we handled the root,...than pain, except it is increased to great violence. Rum phi us has also given an account of this bulb and its inhabitants, vol. vi. p. 120, where he mentions...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 13

Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 pages
...scarcely force enough to make them felt : They had, however, a power of tormenting us in an equal, if not a greater degree; for the moment we handled the root,...than pain, except it is increased to great violence. Rumphius has also given an account of this bulb and its inhabitants, vol. vi. p. 120, where he mentions...
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A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th ..., Volume 13

Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 pages
...They had, however, • power of tormenting IM in an equal, if not a greater degree; for the mumeul we handled the root, they swarmed from innumerable...than pain, except it is increased to great violence. Rumphius ha* also given an account of this bulb and its inhabitant«, vol. vi. p. l -jo, where he mentions...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels: Arranged ..., Volume 13

Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 pages
...however, a power of tormenting us in an equal, if not a greater degree ; for the moment we bandied the root, they swarmed from innumerable holes, and...than pain, except it is increased to great violence. Rumphius has also given an account of this bulb and its inhabitants, vol. vi. p. 120, where he mentions...
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Animal biography, or, Popular zoology, Volume 4

William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...was not inhabited, though some were not bigger than a hazel nut. The animals themselves are red, and very small, not more than half as big as the common...than pain, except it is increased to great violence." ^Dipterous fnsects*. OF THE OESTRI, OR GAD-FLIES*. From the posterior part of the body of the Gad-Sies,...
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Buffon's Natural history, corrected and enlarged by J. Wright. (To which are ...

Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...was not inhabited, though some were not bigger than a hazel nut. The animals themselves are red, and very small, not more than half as big as the common...pain, except it is increased to great violence." THE BEETLE. OF the Beetle there are various kinds; all, however, concurring in one common formation of...
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A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes ..., Volume 5

Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 402 pages
...tormenting us in an equal if not in a greater degree ; for the moment we handled the root, they swarm6" from innumerable holes ; and, running about those...pain, except it is increased to great violence." THE BEETLE. OF the Beetle there are various kinds ; all, however, concurring in one common formation of...
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