The Foundation of the City 
And one fine day the industry or 
caprice of man will install a docile swarm 
in one of these disconcerting abodes. And 
there the little insect is expected to learn 
its bearings, to find its way, to establish 
its home; to modify the seemingly un- 
changeable plans dictated by the nature 
of things. In this unfamiliar place it 
is required to determine the site of the 
winter storehouses, that must not extend 
beyond the zone of heat that issues from 
the half-numbed inhabitants; it must 
divine the exact point where the brood- 
cells shall concentrate, under penalty of 
disaster should these be too high or too 
low, too near to or far from the door. 
The swarm, it may be, has just left 
the trunk of a fallen tree, containing 
one long, narrow, depressed, horizon- 
tal gallery; and it finds itself now 
in a tower-shaped edifice, whose roof is 
lost in gloom. Or, to take a case that 
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