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As foon as the Queen has depofited a Parcel of 
Eggs, the Workers take them under their Pro¬ 
tection, and provide for their Procefs to Worms. 
They firft of all brood over them in Queers* 
and remove them to different Lodgments, either 
nearer to, or farther from the Surface, as a juft 
Proportion of Heat and Cold, Drynefs or Moifture 
Demands. When the Eggs have been changed to 
Vermicles for fome Days, the common Ants dif~ 
tribute them into feveral Heaps, and carry each 
Divifion into a feparate Apartment. For the firft 
Seafon they grow fparingly, and therefore the 
common Ants are not at a great Expence of Trou¬ 
ble or Provifions in maintaining this Set of W onus# 
Their chief Bufmefs is to guard them againft 
Hoftility and excefiive Rains, which they manage 
by keeping a fufticient Gentry, and removing 
them to Places of greater Security. It may be 
proper to recollect, that in mo ft Settlements there 
is a double Progeny of Young, fo that the Labours 
of the Workers are not abated, but rather much 
encreafed, by this flow and gradual Advancement 
of the Vermicles. They have, by this means, after 
the firft Year, two Succeffions of Pofterity under 
their Charge; however, by the wife Difpofition it is 
fo accurately ordered, as in noWay to Overbalance 
their 
