
4 4. The Hiftory of Brxs. 
ticular Marks, as if there. were Degrees of 
Dignity among them; but in all other Ref- 
pects like the Vulgar. 
_ It appears, Pliny led him into this Mif- 
take. + Mr. Rufden after the Doctor has dif- 
tinguifhed them into four Parts, vz. King, 
Captains, Commons and Drones; but in his 
following Defcription takes no farther No- 
tice of the fecond Rank, t 
From forty Years dilipent Obfervation and 
Experience, I have not learned any fuch 
Difference, as thefe two Gentlemen have 
infinuated; nor in Reality is there any fuch 
Diftin@ion among them. Both the Phyfi- 
cian and Apothecary have . Ginn: impofed 
upon their Readers, 
Tho’. the Doctor was no “doubt the beft, 
and the moft judicious Writer, of his ‘Time, 
upon this Subject; yet from many other - 
Inftances, befides what I have mentioned, we 
find him fallible, and much miftaken ; ; aflerting 
many Things as "Matters of Fact, which (to fay. 
no worfe) are only mere Conjectures. 
Some Things moreover he writes, not 
 fuited to vulgar Minds; as in others he 
feems too prolix and voluminous, Yet take . 
his Monarchy together, and in all it’s Parts, 
it muft be owned an excellent Performance, 
efpecially in that Age of the World, 
: 7 The 
+ Pliny, L. 11. ¢. §. 17. Rempublicam habent, Con- 
filia, ac Duces circa Kegem Satellites. } Rufdew’ s Dif- 
- Gov, pag. 25 3. 
