ture, that in.all probability, and as.far as] arf, able to 
judge, the full decifion hereof muft be left to future time, 
and the generations which are to.follow... .. 
. Which, is the male, whether the Drone, the oem 
a or the common Honey-Bee, is the fubje@ of our 
prefent enquiry. Some difpute with zeal for the Drones, 
fome for the royal Sovereign, and others for the Com- 
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_» Ancient writers in general, philofophers, hiftorians, 
poets, and phyficians, together with feveral modern 
ones, vz. Butler, Purchas, Warder, Bradley, and others, 
plead for the Drones. Dr. Warder, in his true Amazons, 
or Monarchy of Bees,* affirms the ruler to be a female, 
as alfo the common Bees, and that the Drone is the only 
‘male. 
_ As to the fex of the lat gar are many arguments, 
he fays, for what he aflerts, as that all creatures breed 
male and female; and he being the biggeft, it is moft 
probable that he is of the male kind : yet in the next pe- 
riod confefies, that it’s being in fubjection to the other 
Bees, is an argument againft him. Ae? 
. But to'put the matter into a clear light, any perfon 
opening the belly of the Drone-Bee, he fhall find, in the 
fame manner as in birds, a large pair of tefticles, as big 
as great pins-heads, milk-white, joined together upwards 
by the fpermatick veflel——The penis, or inftrument 
of generation, is indeed much more ftrange, and will 
feem incredible to the reader, till he hath tried the ex- 
_ periment.—And in my opinion will apnea the fame 
tafter fuch experiment. Yet 
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