X ADVERTISEMENT. 



excited in his mind by the prosecution of his in- 

 quiries, to exceed the limits which bounded his 

 original plan : the result will be found in Part II. 

 The subject would have admitted of still further 

 extension ; but to have increased the volume be- 

 yond its present size would have been to defeat 

 one of the objects of the author, which was so 

 to compress his matter as to place his book 

 within the reach of as many as possible of those 

 to whom he flatters himself it may prove practi- 

 cally useful. Should the public, however, require 

 a second edition, and sufficing reasons urge hirr 

 to place this series of bee-knowledge under dis- 

 tinct heads, he will endeavour to re-model it, as 

 well as otherwise to improve it, by such altera- 

 tions as ingenuous criticism may suggest. 



