78 Of A N T & 
We are, in the laft Place, to treat of the third 
Part of their Employments, which relates to the 
End and Manner of colleSing Provifions. And 
here we (hall have great Occafion to renew our 
Wonder, and admire the wife laborious Ant 
It has been a Difpute amongft the Inquifitive on 
this Subjedt, whether Ants have Magazines or 
Granaries of Corn, and lay up a Stock of Fro« 
vifions for the Winter. The * generality of Au¬ 
thors hold the affirmative, and have given us not 
lefs elegant than pofitive Defcriptions thereof® 
The moft remarkable and modern Account of this 
Sort is contained in anExtradt of a letter publifhed 
by the Members of the French Academy. Mr. Ad* 
difon has favoured us with this Extract in the + 
Second Volume of tht Guardians $ and is pleafed to 
obferve, that the Narrative is of undoubted Credit 
* Solomon, Pliny, Virgil, Horace, Aldrovand, 
Swammerdam, Nature Displayed, &c. 
Ore trahit quodcunque potefi et addit acer*vo 9 
Quern Jiruit baud ignara ac non incauta futuri 
Qua? Jitnul in<verfutn coniriftat aquarius Annum 9 
Non ujquam prorepit et Mis utitur ante 
Qua’ fit is Jdpiensm Horace. 
+ Guard, VoL. z . No, ic6« 
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