300 Microscopical Essays. 



rebuilt a little farther off a fize bigger 3 and the number of them? 

 increafed at the lame time. 



Thus they continually enlarge their apartments, pulldown^, 

 repair, or re-build, according to their wants, with a degree of 

 fagacity, regularity, and forefight, not even imitated by any other 

 kind of animals or infecls. 



The nurferies are inclofed in chambers of clay, like thofe which; 

 contain the pro virions, but much larger. In the early Mate of the 

 neft they are not bigger than an hazel-nut, but in great hills are 

 often as large as a child's head of a year old. 1 



The difpofition of the interior parts of thefe hills is very much 

 alike, except when fome infurmountable obftacle prevents ; for 

 inflance, when the king and queen have been firft lodged near 

 the foot of a rock, or of a tree, they are certainly built out of the 

 ufual form, otherwife pretty nearly according to the following, 

 plan. 



The royal chamber is fituated at about a level with the furface 

 of the ground, at an equal diftance from all the fides of the build- 

 ing, and directly under the apex of the hill. It is on all fides r 

 both above and below, furrounded by what may be called the 

 royal apartments, which have only labourers and foldiers in 

 them, and can be intended for no other purpofe than for thefe to 

 wait in, either to guard or ferve their common father and mother^. 

 on whofe fafety depends the happinefs, and, according to the 

 negroes, even the exigence of the whole community. 



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