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wonder at the feats of a more modern ex ibitor of bees; and we 
may justly say of him now,— 
a Thou, 
Had thy presiding star propitious shone, 
Should’st Wildman * be - : c 
9? 
When a tall youth he was removed from hence to a distant 
village, where he died, as I understand, before he arrived at 
manhood. 
I am, &c. 
* Thomas Wildman published a ‘‘ Treatise on the Management of Bees; ’ with the 
various methods of cultivating them, both ancient and modern, ato., 1768.. 
