go Of A N T S. 
Seafons lefs fevere; therefore Ants may not utH 
dergo that Chill which they do in England ; nor 
confequently pafs the Winter in a State of Numb- 
nefs. If this Reprefentation be true, it is obvious* 
that with regard to Foreign Ants, Magazines 
rnuft be of great Utility and Service. The Lilli¬ 
putian Race could not fubfift without a proper 
Store of Food, to prevent Famine and expel Hun¬ 
ger. On the other Hand, our Northern Ants, 
like a Variety of other Xnfe&s, lie as it were en-* 
tranced, and demand little or no Allowance in the 
colder Months. Such Granaries would therefore 
be to them ufelefs and unprofitable. But, after all, 
upon an impartial Confultation of Authors, this 
Opinion feems rather to be fupported by its An - 4 
tiquity, than reduced to a clear Demonftration* 
If it may not be too adventurous to play the 
Critic with the above celebrated Extract, there is 
a fhort Paragraph which gives us Room to imagine 
the ingenious Philofopher had not brought the 
Point to an indifputable Certainty. * I make 
no doubt (fays he) but they lay up Provifions 
again & Winter. We read it in Holy Scripture* 
44 A Thoufand Experiments teach us the fame, 
and I don't believe that any Experiment has 
been made to the contrary c 3 2 
* Guard, Yob* No. 256a 
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