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Queens, for Brevity's fake.-— The Queen of the jets, 
he fays, he never had the Pleafure of feeing. 
He has beautifully reprefented the Obedience and 
Refped the Queen commands, in whatever Apart- 
ment fhe condefcends to be prcfent. — An univerfai 
Gladnefs, he fays, fpreads itfelf thro' the whole Cell, 
exprefled by particular Ads of Joy and Exultation : 
They have a particular Way, it feems, of skipping, 
leaping, and handing upon their hind Legs, and 
prancing with the others ; which Frolicks they make 
ufe of both to congratulate each other when they 
meet, and to fhew their Regard for the Queen. 
Some walk gently over her, others dance around 
her, and all endeavour to exert their Loyalty and 
Affedion. However romantic, fays our Author, this 
Defcription may feem, it may eaftly be proved, by 
placing a Queen, with her Retinue, under a Glafs ; 
for, in a few Moments, you will be convinced of the 
Honour they pay, and Efteem they have for her. 
In October, he tells us, Ants and their Queens 
begin to retire downwards j and, in the Depth of 
Winter, are to be found in the remoteft Apartments, 
incircled clofe with a Clufter of Attendants, and, as 
it were, benumb'd. 
CHAP. IV. The Author gives a particular Account 
of the Time and Manner in which the Queens lay 
the Eggs, &c. - 
And he fays, he has been the more circum : 
ftantial in this Point, to remove a Miftake of 
Sir Edmond Kings, who, not aware of there being 
a fuperior Female, gave into the old Opinion, that 
the 
