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nurseries are close to the royal chamber; but as in 
process of time the queen enlarges, it is necessary 
to enlarge the chamber for her accommodation; 
and as she then lays a greater number of eggs, 
and requires a greater number of attendants, so it 
is necessary to enlarge and encrease the number 
of the adjacent apartments; for which purpose the 
small nurseries which are first built are taken to 
pieces, rebuilt a little farther oft' a size bigger, 
and the number of them encreased at the same 
time. 
“ Thus they continually enlarge their apart- 
ments, pull down, repair, or rebuild, according 
to their wants, with a degree of sagacity, regu- 
larity, and foresight, not even imitated by any 
other kind of animals or insects that I have yet 
heard of. 
There is one remarkable circumstance attend- 
ing the nurseries, which I must not at this time 
omit. They are always found slightly overgrown 
with and plentifully sprinkled with small white 
globules about the size of a small pin’s head. 
These at first I took to be the eggs; but, on 
bringing them to the microscope, they evidently 
appeared to be a species of mushroom, in shape 
like our eatable mushroom in the young state in 
which it is pickled. They appear, when whole, 
white like snow a little thawed and then frozen 
again, and when bruised seem composed of an 
infinite number of pellu(;id particles, approaching 
^to oval forms and difficult to sejiarate; the mouldi- 
