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to the number of bees. Can the cottagers 

 extend their land? or will they extirpate 

 from their little allotment the vegetables of 

 their daily fupport, to give place for bee- 

 flowers ? Will gentlemen (whom B. chiefly 

 addreflfes) plough up their grafs and corn 

 lands, to cultivate fuch flowers ? Surely 

 corn and cattle are of more value than ho- 

 ney ! We had better be without honey than 

 bread. But B. has a refource in heath, 

 which covers, he fays, more than half of 

 Britain ! If true, I am forry to hear it ; 

 and hope moft part of it will fpeedily be 

 ploughed up for corn, though it mould 

 prove the ruin of this new plan of increafing 

 of bees. I fhould fooner prefer Virgil's me- 

 thod of raifing bees from a dead heifer, or 

 of Sampfon's procuring honey from a dead 

 lion. 



I fincerely hope, as Mr. B. has been a 

 practitioner for twenty- fix years, he has 

 accumulated a fnug fortune, to compenfate 

 for his labours and ingenious difcoveries. 

 But as his native land fo much abounds in 

 white clover, heath, furze, &c. it is wonder- 

 ful that honey fells at ten-pence and twelve^ 



pence 



