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Rh in the Cover of which was an Opening ufficient for the Workers to pas to and fro, but o narrow as to confine the Queen. A Corps was contantly in waiting and urrounded her, whilt others went out in earch of Proviions. By ome Misfortune he died; the Ants, as if not appried of her Death, continued their Obedience. They even removed her from one Part of the Box to another, and treated her with the ame Court and Formality as if he had been alive. This lated two Months, at the End of which the Cover being open, they forook the Box, and carried her off.

The Queen Ant eldome continues long with her Young. As oon as he has depoited a Parcel of Eggs, he leaves them to the Care of the Workers, and withdraws to a eparate Apartment. Hence you always find her in a Cell with nothing but her Attendants; unles you happen to light upon her at the Time of her Laying.

If you take three or four Cells of Ants with the Young delivered to their Care, and alo a Queen with her Retinue, and mix them together, and then place them in a Box with a Quantity of moit Earth, they will in a hort Time, for a like