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like Number of Lodgments, and re-afTemble in the 
Manner you firft found them. The Queen and 
her Attendants in an Apartment by themfelves, 
the Workers and their refpe&ive Young in the 
others. 
There is great Reafon to prefume that the Obe¬ 
dience of the Common Ants to the Queens, is 
temporary, and limited to particular Cells; for 
on putting feveral in Boxes, I obferved that after 
laying their Eggs, their Attendants grew more 
cool towards them, and the Queens feemed un, 
fettled and difcontented. It is certain that in the 
Summer Months, the Queen is to be met with in 
various Places of the Colony ; that in feveral of 
the Lodgments you may find new-laid Eggs; and 
that the Size of her Body decreafes in Proportion. 
From whence I am inclined to believe that having 
depofited a Parcel in one, fhe retires to another 
Cell and does the fame; and thus in the laying 
Seafon from January , to % September , fhe often 
changes her Situation, and likewife her Atten* 
dants ; furnifhing each Company in their turn with 
a Supply of Eggs. She is received into the new 
Apartment with univerfal Pleafure, and until fhe 
* See the Note Page 31. 
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