The Foundation of the City 
to the bee; or in any event it does not 
allow them to hinder its action. Far from 
being cast down by an ordeal before which 
every other courage would succumb, it 
displays greater ardour than ever. Scarcely 
has the hive been set in its place, and the 
disorder allayed that ensued on the bees’ 
tumultuous fall, when we behold the clearest, 
most unexpected division in that entangled 
mass. The greater portion, forming in solid 
columns, like an army obeying a definite 
order, will proceed to climb the vertical 
walls of the hive. The cupola reached, the 
first to arrive grapple it with the claws of 
their anterior legs, those that follow hang 
on to the first, and so in succession, until 
long chains have been formed that serve as 
a bridge to the crowd that rises and rises. 
And, by slow degrees, these chains, as their 
number increases, supporting each other and 
incessantly interweaving, become garlands 
which, in their turn, the uninterrupted and 
constant ascension transforms into a thick, 
triangular curtain, or rather a kind of 
compact and inverted cone, whose apex 
attains the summit of the cupola, while its 
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