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a fork. It muft fhut fo far in as to be flufh 

 with the fide of the box. 



The top (pL i, fig. 2.) is to be compofed 

 of fix flips of wood, which I name bars, 

 a, a, a, a, a, a, three quarters of an inch thick; 

 the two outermoft, one inch and a quarter 

 broad ; the other four, one and a half. The 

 ends of the fecond and fifth bars are to be 

 let into the front and back edges of the box, 

 and flufh with the outfide ; the remaining 

 four bars are to be of a due length, to pafs 

 eafily withinfide from front to back. Two 

 fillets, each an inch broad, are to be braided 

 to the bars, or rather let in tranfverfely, of the 

 diameter of the box, and near their ends, not 

 only to keep the bars at half an inch exa£t 

 diftance from each other, and from the fides 

 of the box, but to conned the whole like a 

 frame together, and to take in or out, with 

 the combs fixed to them, at pleafure. The 

 bars (ift, 3d, 4th, and 6th) ferve alfo to 

 prevent the frame from flipping from its 

 fituation. The top, thus made, will have fix 

 bars, and [even apertures, or openings, like 

 the ftraw hives. 



There is to be but one close cover, or 



lid 



