VI PREFACE. 



expence. But from the impartial efiimate 

 I have ftated (page 60), it will be afcer- 

 tained, that the management there propofed 

 far overbalances the extra expence, and 

 therefore will merit the adoption of Bee- 

 keepers, and, perhaps, the patronage of 

 Agricultural Societies. 



By perfons of a higher clafs a trifle of 

 additional expenditure will not be regarded, 

 in eomparifon of the convenience and fafety 

 with which the operations may be effected : 

 to fay nothing of the gratification of philofo- 

 phic curiofity, together with fuperior profit. 



Near the dole of the year 1 780, I ven- 

 tured to publifh a work of this kind, accord- 

 ing to the bell of the knowledge and expe- 

 rience I had then attained. Since that time, 

 having no avocation to withdraw my at- 

 tention from my favourite purfuit y and en- 

 couraged by the favourable reception of that 

 work, 1 now, in the vale of life, fubmi't this 

 treatife, as the rejult of all my refearchea; 

 drawn from a much longer and more affi- 

 duous experience, and from a cooler judg- 

 ment, ripened by numberlefs experiments, 

 which have led me to new obfervations and 



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