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employ for making the floors and ceilings of her 

 miniature apartments ? Why, truly, God " doth 

 instruct her to discretion, and doth teach her (A)," 

 the saw-dust just mentioned is at hand, and this 

 supplies her with all that she wants to make this 

 part of her mansion complete. Beginning at the 

 bottom of the cylinder she deposits an egg, and 

 then lays in a store of pollen mixed with honey 

 sufficient for the nutriment of the little animal it is 

 to produce. At the height of seven or eight lines, 

 which is the depth of each cell, she next constructs, 

 of particles of the saw-dust glued together and also 

 to the sides of the tunnel, what may be called an 

 annular stage, or scaffolding ; when this is suffici- 

 ently hardened its interior edge affords a support 

 for a second ring of the same materials, and thus 

 the ceiling is gradually formed of these concentric 

 circles, till there remains only a small orifice in its 

 center, and this is also filled up with a circular 

 mass of agglutinated particles of the saw-dust. 

 This partition exhibits the appearance of as many 

 concentric circles as the animal has made join- 

 ings (/), and is about the thickness of a French 

 crown-piece ; it serves for the ceiling of the lower, 

 and the floor of the upper apartment. One cell 

 being completed, she proceeds to another, which 

 she furnishes and finishes in the same manner, 

 and so on till she has divided her whole tunnel into 

 apartments, which arc usually about twelve. The 

 (h) Isai. xxviii. 26. (i) Reaum. torn. 6. tab. 0. fig, 4, 5. 

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