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Show Ants af.d the Overflow. Dr. Arthur J. Hayos, who recontly visited Abyssinia with a snrvoylng party sent out to set up marks for gauging the rise of the fllue Nile, the branch of the "river of Egypt," which contributes most to Us annual overflow over-flow and to the fertilisation of the Nile delta, declares that tho wonderful wonder-ful productiveness of tho mud spread over tho cultivated parts of Kgypt every year Is duo to the white ants, or termites, which abound In Abyssinia and have alwnys been considered a destructive de-structive pcit. |