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wonder at the feats of a more modern exhibitor of bees ; and we 

 may justly say of him now, 



Had thy presiding star propitious shone. 

 Should'st Wildman * be 



Thou, 



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, 410., 1768. 



