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together 5 and in the only two Places where I find it oc- 
cur beltdes, is ufed for Gathering in Summer, as Trov. 
x. 5. and for Gathering in the Vintage, 'Dent, xxviii. 
39. yet the ExprcfTions, in the Text, neccflarily mean 
no more, than that they colled their Food in its 
proper Seafon 5 nor is there any thing elfe declared 
chap . xxx. wr. 2 5. So that all which may fairly be 
concluded from Scripture is, that they carry Food 
for thcmfelvcs into their Repofitories *. That they 
do this againft Winter can only be determined by 
examining into the Fad: This our Author has done 
with very great Diligence, and has difeovered, with 
refped to our Englifb Ants, that they cat not at all 
in the Winter and have no Stores laid in of any 
fort of Food. The Opinion therefore of their laying 
in Magazines againft Winter, feerns to me to have 
been grafted on thefc Scriptures, rather than found 
in them ; and this from a Conclufion naturally enough 
made, from obferving (as I faid) their wonderful 
Labour and Induftry in gathering their Food in the 
Summer, fuppoling that this muft be to provide 
againft Winter. And, after all, great Part of their 
Labour, which may have been beftowed in other 
Services, might cafily be miftaken, by lefs accurate 
Obiervcrs, for carrying in Food. 
I am forry I muft omit the ingenious Author’s juft 
moral Rcfkdions 5 but my Time will only allow me 
to conclude, as he does, with the Words of the 
Royal Pfalmift, Great is the Lord , and marvelLus , 
worthy 
* i. e. To ferve them as long as it will keep good, or they fliall 
need it. 
