O/ANTS, 29 
You may fometimes expert to find two yellow 
Queens in the fame Colony. I have once or 
twice met with three. They moft ufually refide 
in the fame Lodgment, and live together in per¬ 
fect Harmony and Union. The Hill and fmall 
Black Ants feem to differ in this Circumftance: 
For I never could, by the niceft Refearches, obferve 
more than one in a Settlement. 
A Colony of Red Ants* as in manyother, fo in 
this Refpect has a Variation. You feldom find 
among them fewer than two Queens. If the Fa¬ 
mily be tolerably numerous, there are often three 
or four. A Thoufand or Fifteen Hundred are the 
moft a Settlement of this Sort generally amounts 
to. It has been already obferved that the Red 
Queens exceed not their Vaflals above two to one, 
or thereabouts. As fuch a Proportion might not 
fo well anfwer a fupply of Young, this Deficiency 
is made up in Number. If they inhabit under a 
broad Stone, you may in Summer by lifting it up 
often fee them on the Surface intermixt with the 
reft. They never work, are refpedftfully treated, 
and feem to have no other Care on their Hands 
than to keep up their Names, and give Birth to a 
fucceeding Pofterity* 
This 
