Lydia Jane Wheeler Peirson (born 1802, died 1862) is an American poet. She was born as Lydia Jane Wheeler in Middletown, Connecticut. Her father was a lover of poetry and encouraged her to write poems. When she was 17 years old, she and her family moved to Canandaigua, New York. Two years later she got married. She moved to the Liberty settlement, located in Tioga County, one of the most remote areas of the state of Pennsylvania. She lived in a hut in the woods, five miles from the nearest byway and twenty miles from the store. It became known when Judge Ellis Lewis read her letters. Because of her place of residence, she was called The Forest Minstrel, from the title of her second volume. Bibliography
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Myrmex Indikos
Myrmex Indikos, pol. Indian ant - an alleged species of gigantic ants (according to Herodot's description, larger than foxes, but smaller than dogs). The earliest mention of these creatures is dated to the fifth century BC, and its author is Herodotus. According to her, these ants inhabited the deserts of Persia and India and extracted gold from their sands. Several such creatures were kept in the residence of the King of Persia. Gold was to be obtained by caravans made up of several camels in the heat of the day, when the ants were protected underground. You had to do it quickly, because the ants sensed the smell of people and went on the pursuit, and they were deadly dangerous. This story is confirmed by the next accounts: Nearchos, one of the army officers of Alexander Macedoński, and Megastenes - a historian and traveler. The fragment of the Megasthenes (IV-III century BC) preserved in fragments can be seen in the underground mines at the foot of the mountains on the easte...
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