1805.] 



Olfervailons during a Tour in America, 



41-; 



be done fo as not to endanger the ftock. 

 I have not, indeeJ, for reafons which are 

 now no more, poinied out the way of di'^- 

 ing it in the General Apiarian, the fecond 

 edition of which may be had of Cadell 

 and Davies. Common hivts may cer- 

 tainly be deprived with advantage, when 

 the hives recommended in that book can- 

 not be obf.-iined. But then you mull not 

 take biood-comhs, and never take empty 

 combs. To take the laft is wanton, and 

 to take the firft dtftroys or makes a chalm 

 in the fucceffion. You mult alio leave ho- 

 nev for the bees ; that is, you mutt leave 

 all that is contained in the tops of the 

 breeding-combs, which are generally in 

 the centre ; and if you deprive in Septem- 

 ber or October, you fliould leave as much 

 as will make the hive twenty-four pounds 

 alter deprivation. The man who does 

 this will have what is taken ; fiy, from a 

 rich ftock, fixteen pounds, for his trouble, 

 and will not endanger the exiftence of the 

 bees. As few are acquainted with any 

 good method of doing it, 1 will here pre- 

 fent the reader with rny own. 



I tack the fide of a table- cloth or (heet 

 to a common empty hive, nearly around 

 (•hen I have no proper receiver at hand), 

 and place the crown of this hive in a peck 

 on the ground, near the ftcck to be de- 

 prived (which is generally loofened from 

 the ftool the preceding evening), and 

 fpread the remainder of the cloth on the 

 ground. I then gently take up the flock, 

 and place the edges on thofe of the empty 

 one or receiver, and immediately lift up 

 the cloth, lb as completely tolurround the 

 whole and confine the bees in the hives, 

 and carry the whole into a ftiade or room 

 at fome diilance. There, aflifltd by an- 

 other, I invert the hives, fo that the re- 

 reiver be up, and the crown of the cnn- 

 iron hive, containing the treafure, be in 

 the pack helovi^. Then, after drumming 

 gently the common hive for about fifteen 

 minutes, I find the bees have either al'- 

 cended into the receiver, or have been i'o 

 terrified as not to give me much trouble.-— 

 I then move the receiver into another 

 cloth, to confine the bees that are in it, 

 while I take out cf the hive fuch combs, 

 and fuch a quantity of them, as I have 

 already delcribed, for ule. — Finally, I 

 place the receiver, as before, on the hive, 

 and convey them near the (tool, and, after 

 beating the bees from the receiver into the 

 hive containing breeding-combs, Itjuickly 

 place it on the (tand as before. Tiiii, 

 and not yours, it the way to take the ho. 

 n«y without dedroying the bcci. 



But if the operator be not accuflomed ta 

 efcnpe tiuir flings in experiments on thel'e 

 inl'efts, I would rarnellly recommend his 

 obtaining the veil and gloves defcribed in 

 the General Apiarian. 



I deprive at an hour of the day moft 

 convenient to inyfelf, and at any time 

 of the year, when not too cold for the 

 bees that are out to return to the hive. 



You will doubtlefs join with me in la- 

 menting that the recommendations of 

 " priefis" and travellers of no experience, 

 whole theories pleafe the reader, are fre- 

 quen'ly more at;ended to than theinftruc- 

 tions of real praflitioners. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 Moreion, 7ieet>- Exeter, J. Isaac. 



l\'ov. I, 1805. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



AVING long fufpeflcd that thofe 

 emigrants to the United States wha 

 do not mean to confine their view's to com- 

 merce very much eired in fettling in the 

 Atlantic States, I was dtfhous of feeing 

 thecounuy weft if the Alleghany moun- 

 tains, that from aflual obfervation I might 

 he able to appreciate the relative ad- 

 vantages of the great divifions (eall and 

 weft) of our Union. With this view I 

 accepted an oiTer made me by a member of 

 the Adrnmiftratian of the United States, 

 who is not only defervedly high in the 

 confidence of his fellovv-citizens, but 

 efteemed and beloved wherever ki;own, of 

 accompanying him to an Indian treaty, to 

 be held early in June at the city of Cleve- 

 land, lituate at the mouth of the Cuyaha- 

 ga River, where it empties itfcU into Lake 

 Erie, in the county of Trumbull, and in 

 the ftate of Ohio. To this journey I was 

 the more efpecialiy ftimulated, as it would 

 give me a very fair oppoitujiity cf invelli- 

 gating the county of Trumbull, a coun- 

 ty whole intrinfic riches have been fa 

 loudly praifed, as to create very confide- 

 rable curiofity in the public mind of thi» 

 country. 



I left my home at Alexandria, in the 

 diftriftof Columbia, on the 19th of April, 

 flept at my friend's houle in the city of 

 Walhington that evening, and at three 

 o'clock on the following morning quitted 

 the feat of the General Government of the 

 United States in the mail-llnge, which 

 p;i lies through Fiedt-ric-Town in Mary liiiid, 

 Chamhertburgh in Pcnnfyjvania, to Fittf; 

 b.ugh in thai itate, the diftaoce from the 

 city of VValliington to Pif (burg being about 

 zjo inil«», and tne flage-fais fix dollars j 

 Piitibujgh 



