132 The Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



the young Ones muft neceffarily be utterly 

 marr'd and ruin'd. y. The Bee^ a Creature of 

 the loweft Forms of Animals, fo that no Man 

 can fufpeft it to have any confiderable Meafure 

 of Underftanding , or to have Knov^ledge of, 

 much lefs to aim at any End, yet makes her 

 Combs and Cells with that geometrical Accura- 

 cy, that fhe muft needs be ad:ed by an Inftincft 

 implanted in her by the wife Author of Nature ; 

 for firft fhe plants them in a perpendicular Po- 

 fture, and fo clofe together as with Conveniency 

 they may, beginning at the top and working 

 downwards, that fo no room may be loft in the 

 Hive, and that fhe may have eafy Accefs to all 

 the Combs and Cells ; befides, the Combs being 

 wrought double, that is, with Cells on each fide, 

 a common Bottom or partition Wall could not 

 in any other Site have fo conveniently, if at all, 

 received or contain'd the Honey; then (he makes 

 the particular Cells moft geometrically and arti- 

 ficially, as the famous Mathematician Pappus 

 demonftrates in the Preface to his third Book of 

 Mathematical ColleBiohs. Firft of all (faith he, 

 fpeaking of the Cells) it is convenient that they 

 be of fuch Figures as may cohere one to another, 

 and have common Sides, elfe there would be 

 empty Spaces left between them to no Ufe, but 

 to the weakening and fpoiling of the Work, if 

 any thing ihould get in there ; and therefore, 

 tho' a round Figure be moft capacious for the 

 Honey, and moft convenient for the Bee to creep 

 into, yet did ftie not make choice of that, be- 

 I caufe 



