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7. w^^^ ^^^y ^^^^ newly put on this fhape,! could never 
difcern theleaft motion in any one part of the little Creature, 
whereof the reafon may perhaps be, theweaknefs of their Fibres 5 
for after a little more time, when they begin to be brownidi^ they 
have ftrength to ftir all their parts. 
8. At laft I met with fome of thefe reputed Eggs, which being 
carefully open'd by me, I took out of feveralof them^, everyway 
perfeft and compleat Ants, vyhich did immediately creep about 
among the reft, no way differing from many other Ants, but by a 
morcfeeblemotionof their Limbs. And this I cook for a clear de« 
monftration of what I defigned, which was to know, That the 
Film does onely cover the Maggoty while flie is transforming into 
an Ant, and fit to fhift for her felf, 
P T he Mack Speck that is at one end of every fuch reputed Ants 
Egg jl fuppofe to be caft out of the Maggot in her transformation 5 
fince,after it puts on the (hape of an Ant,theSpeck is quite gone^ 
and the whole body of the Ant pure clear j fince alfo this Speck 
. at the end of the faid Egg,lies always clofe to the Jn^^ of the ia« 
eluded An\ 
ic. As to their care for their 7"^»;*^ (by which I mean all the 
forts and degrees aforefaid/rom the Spawn to the vulgarly call'd 
Eggs^ in every one of which you'l find a young Ant) it is obfer- 
vable^ How upon the breaking up of their Banks, they make it 
ihe.r bufinefs immediately to carry their Young out of fight again, 
laying the feveral forts of them in feveral places and heaps: the 
which if you mingle again or fcatterjyou fhall, laying but fome 
bits of Slate, or the like, in anyplace they may come to and get 
under, after a few hours fee all the Vermicles^ and vulgarly call'd 
Eggs, laid in their feveral and diftinc^ parcels^ under fuch pieces of 
Slate, &c. Provided the place be not fo cold as to chill their 
Limbs which if it be^ by being brought to the fire they will fooo 
recover their flrength^ and fall to their bufinefs again,of fecuring 
their little Ones, 
1 1 . 1 have obferved in Summer,That in the Morning they bring 
up thofe of their Young (that are vulgarly call'd Anes Eggs) to- 
wards the top of the Bank^ fo that you may from Ten in the Morn- 
ing,until Five or Six Afternoon, find them near the top 5 efpecially 
about One^Two^or Three of the Clock, and later^ ii the Weather 
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