98 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
ed, ‘they roe again four times, and I returned them as 
often ; at twice I took from them two commanders, four 
‘at two other times, and another time three; being nine 
inall: after which they rofe no more. The remaining’ 
Sovereign, and the other which went out with the fwarm, 
“made them up eleven in all, which I concluded was the 
whole number bred in that colony, not finding any o- 
‘ther expelled and flain. 
But as a fingle ftock feldom {warms oftner than twice or 
thrice, and a few of the blood royal are fuficient, it is 
very probable the number feldom amounts to fo. many. 
Our numbers thus multiplying, and hives filling a- 
"pace, and ready to grow up into more families, ‘in 
-fwarms foon expected, the next thing to be done, is to 
“provide them convenient habitations ; which leads them 
to take a furvey of their fkill in geometry and’ architec- 
"ture in the following chapter. 
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