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Of ANTS. 
CHAP. VIII. 
Of the incefjant Labours and Indujlry of the 
Common Ants , or Workers. Of their Me¬ 
thod and Time of collecting Provijions . 
Whether they have Magazines , or lay up 
Corn againji Winter . Of the Variety of 
Food they delight in\ with other Obfervations 
on this Head . 
T H E general Subjedt of this Chapter has been 
fo largely treated of, and well illuftrated 
% fome of the happieft Favourites of * Minerva^ 
and Apollo , that it is impoffible to fet it off with 
more Beauty of Thought, or Elegance of Stile. But 
perhaps, in many Circumftances, they have rather 
fliewn the Poet than Philofopher; and rather in¬ 
dulged an extenfive Fancy, than Stridtnefs of En¬ 
quiry. I fhall therefore endeavour to fupply that 
Deficiency, by keeping exa&ly to Truth, and a 
Series of repeated Experiments. 
m Pliny , Aldrovandus 9 Swam . Virgil 9 Horace^ and 
feveral French , and other foreign Authors. 
It 
