Of ANT S. 79 
and Authority. It is there afferted that Ants have 
% Magazines, do lay up Corn, and defpoil it of 
the f Bud, in order to prevent its growing. So 
nice and curious aRelation cannot but engage every 
Virtuofo to wifh it true, and alfo make us ex« 
tremely tender in contradicting a Point fupported 
by fuch Credit, and fo weighty a Declaration. As 
therefore the following Account is repugnant to 
It, I fhall offer fome Apology, that may tend to 
reconcile fo unufual a Difagreement in Creatures of 
the fame kind or Species. 
Perhaps in this, as it has been obferved in other 
Circumftances, the Difference of Climates might 
occafion a different Management. In warmer 
Regions the Weather is more favourable, and 
* Thus alfo Virgili 
Ac 'veluti ingentem Formica? farris acerwum. 
Cum popularity lye mis memorcs , tediogue reponunt» 
ALn. 4. 402* 
Semina arrofa condunt ; ne rurfus in fruges exeunt e 
terra Major a ad introitum dinsidunt . Madefadla imbr@ 
proferunt atque jiccant . Plin. Nat. Hitt. L. 11. cap. 2 c? 0 
3 °* 
f This curiofity is alfo afferted by moll Virtuofh 
Pronj. 30. 34. The Ants are a People not flrong, 
yet they prepare their Meat in the Summer. 
Seafons 
