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with it’s jaws opening a -way thro’ the cover-of wax; 
which. fecured it inthe cell from the chilling air, and 
every other injury. Now may you (at the glafs window) 
- fee one horn appear; then the head entire, and afterwards 
the whole body (as the paflage is dilated) difengaging 
itfelf ; of a: lightifh grey, or afh-colour; and as yet in 
it’s infantile flate. In about a week’s {pace it comes to 
it’s natural complexton, arrives at it’s full maturity, and 
is fit for labour, | : 
_ Then may you about ead fee the young a : 
fallying out of the hive in confiderable numbers; after 
various femicircular wheeling motions, taking wing, 
turning their faces immediately towards the hive or co- 
lony, very ftrictly marking the fame, as they (in enlarg- 
ing their circuit).do all the other adjacent parts, and the 
whole neighbourhood. 
In a little {pace of time, having emptied and recreat- 
ed themfelyes, they return with like diligent and curi- 
ous obfervation, the more perfectly to underftand. their 
fituation, and place of fixed refidence. 
_ Thus ready and every way prepared for action, we 
may fuppofe them the next day to begin their moft ufe- 
ful, faithful labours, which end only with their lives. 
The fhattered remains of wax, which fealed. up the 
cell, the other Bees remove, as of no more fervice; and 
no fooner is the matrix cleanfed, and fit for new foecun- | 
dation, but the Queen with another ovum ES 
the fame. . 
And thus is there a conftant fucceffion of young brood, 
peyver totally difcontinuing all the feafon, no not in an 
honey- 
