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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