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old ones become " fleeping-rooms, and flreets 
of communication, formed hj line and level/* 
No doubt, as the republic increafes the cells 
muft be multiplied alfo. But it is eafy to 
imagine, that, as the augmentation can take 
place only on the furface, the nev/ buildings 
will neceflarily cover the old ones, which muft 
therefore be abandoned. 
Should thefe even, contrary to all probabi- 
lity, be able to fubfift, it may be prei'umed 
that the depth of their fituation, by preventing 
any circulation and renevv^al of the air, would 
render them fo extremely hot as to be uninha- 
bitable. But while they thus became ufelefs, 
they would remain what they were before, 
real nefts, and change neither into ftreets nor 
fleeping-rooms '-'^ 
The large neft that I examined, was one of 
the moft confiderable I had any where feen in 
the courfe of my journey, and contained three 
hundred and twenty inhabited cells, which, fup-? 
pofmg a male and female to each, announce a 
fociety of fix hundred and forty individuals. 
* We find in Paterfon a particular account of the nefl^ 
in queftion, but nothing that at all anfwers to the idea of 
fleeping-rooms, which is probably a mifconception of the 
French tranflator. 
