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Rh The Hill Queen is not o proportionably large: She does not exceed any of her Subjects above three to one. Her Breat is rather more yellow, and her Body more hining.

The Queen of the Jets I had never the Pleaure of eeing; but from their Manner of Life, and Proces of their Young, am inclined to believe he varies from her Attendants in uch Proportion as the Red Queens do from theirs.

The red Queen is not above as large again as the ret of her Colony. The top Part of her Head and Breat are black, and varied with a Number of hort bright yellow Hairs, which in the Sun often reemble o many Particles of gold Dut. She is alo armed with a Sting which is denied to the other Queens. She is of an agile Diposition, and often appears in Public; for which Reaon he is probably furnihed with a Weapon of Defence.

The Yellow, Black, and Hill Queens at different Times of the Year reide in various Parts of the Colony. In the Winter Seaon they retire to ome of the remotet Apartments, or however eldome venture above the Center of their Cities. Rh