The Foundation of the City 



of emigrants will be called to display 

 in order to adapt this new dwelling to 

 their requirements. In the void round 

 about them they must lay the plans for 

 their city, and logically mark out the site 

 of the edifices that must be erected as 

 economically and quickly as possible, for 

 the queen, eager to lay, already is scat- 

 tering her eggs on the ground. And in 

 this labyrinth of complicated buildings, 

 so far existing only in imagination, laws 

 of ventilation must be considered, of 

 stability, solidity ; resistance of the wax 

 must not be lost sight of, or the nature 

 of the food to be stored, or the habits 

 of the queen ; ready access must be con- 

 trived to all parts, and careful attention 

 be given to the distribution of stores and 

 houses, passages and streets, — this how- 

 ever is in some measure pre-established, 

 the plan already arrived at being organi- 

 cally the best, — and there are countless 

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