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vegetable Seed ^ tho’ they would with Eagernefs at- 
tack a Pot of Honey, or a Jar of Sweetmeats, fyc. 
Many other Experiments, beftdes thefe, our Author 
made, which I forbear to give you, judging thefe to 
be fatisfadory. 
The moft material Argument in Favour of Ant- 
Magazines, he thinks, is the Authority of the Sacred 
Writings. — - Solomon, he fays, has twice mention'd 
thefe extraordinary In feds $ and each time with an 
immediate Reference to their Sagacity in providing 
for the Neccflltics of Winter. — For removing this 
Difficulty, he has recourfe to the former Solution. 
The fuperior Warmth of the Climate he lived in, 
and, of confequence, the proportionable Clemency 
of the Seafons ; whence he concludes the Ants of 
thofe Countries may vary from ours in this, as well 
as in other Refpeds : Or perhaps, adds he, it might 
have been a received Opinion, as was the Suns 
Motion 5 from whence this great Prince might re- 
commend it, as a worthy Example of Induftry and 
Wifdom. 
If I might have Leave humbly to offer my Opinion, 
our Author feems to have juftified his Condud in 
departing from the commonly received Opinion: 
And perhaps there is good Reafon to think that it 
has been handed down from ancient Writers of Re- 
putation, and too eafily received, without carefully 
examining into the Truth of the Fad ; which Pcrfons 
might eafily be led to do from a general Obfcrvation 
of the extraordinary Induftry of thefe little laborious 
Animals in carrying Things into their Cells. 
The moft learned Bochart , in his Hierozo'icon , 
has difplay’d his vaft Reading on this Subjed, as he 
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