80 BEES. 



Was first inform'd her vent'rous flight to steer, 

 Through trackless paths, and an abyss of air ? 

 Whence she avoids the shmy marsh, and knows,' 

 The fertile hills, where sweeter herbage 

 And honey making flowers, their op'nin* 



disclose ; 



How from the thicken'd mist, and setting sun, 

 Finds she the labour of her day is done? 

 Who taught her against winds and rains to strive. 

 To bring her burthen to the certain hive ; 

 And through the liquid fields again to pass, 

 Duteous, and heark'iiing to the sounding brass ? 



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Philosophical description of Bees, 



A GLASS hive represents a city of sixteen 

 or eighteen thousand inhabitants. This city 

 is a monarchy, consisting of a queen, grandees^ 

 soldiers, artificers, porters, houses, streets, 

 gates, magazines, and the strictest civil policy. 

 The queen lives in a palace in the farther 

 part of the towTi ; some of the cells (which 

 run pei-pendicular from the top of the hive) 

 are larger than the rest, and belong to those, 

 who, after the queen, hold the first rank in 

 the commonw^ealth ; the others are inhabited 

 by the people at large. The cells arc all 



