i 4 Of ANTS. 
can more conveniently pafs to and fro at the fame 
Time. The Water fooner drains off, and fmall 
Particles of Duft, with other Obftrudtions, cannot 
fo eafily fill up the Spaces. The Smoothnefs is alfo 
more commodious to theTendernefs of theYoung, 
which they frequently carry from one Lodgment 
to another. Moft of thefe Channels terminate in 
Cells, except the diredl ones, which go through 
the whole Colony, and difcharge the Water at the 
Bottom. The other Paffages ferve as fo many En¬ 
tries to different Apartments, and on Examination 
appear to be only Branches of the large and direct 
Channels y which fhews the exadt Contrivance of 
the Ants, or how nicely Providence hath pro- 
portioned their Reafon to their State: For by this 
means the Excefs of Water, or other Impediments, 
is conftantly avoided, and fo no ways incommodes 
the Ants themfelves, or their growing Pofterity. 
We cannot lefs admire the Texture of their 
Cells. As the Ants lie together in Clufters, and 
difpofe of the Eggs and many of the Young in the 
like manner, an oval Figure is the moft conveni¬ 
ent for this purpofe, and fuch is the Structure of 
many of their Apartments. A * Square, a Circle? 
* Wc may obferve that fome of their Lodgments 
are more Circular and Oblong than others, but gene¬ 
rally Qva 3 e 
or 
