Of the Bees Works, &c. ror 
But the delightful Bees build their combs perpendi- - 
cularly in a right line, hanging from the fummit, or top 
of the hive, down to the bottom. 
: They lay the found ation of every comb at the top, or 
upper part of the hive, and carry it down to the floor, 
from fide to fide, faftening every comb to fomething fo- 
lid, and able to fupport it. 
How they manufacture the wax, fix it to the hive, and 
fafhion it in fo curious a manner into combs and cells, 
we cannot eafily account for. Yet we fee they are per- 
fect mafters of their art, and underftand how to temper 
the wax by heat, or by fome other means mollifying or 
making it pliable and fit for their purpofe, and to anfwer 
very valuable ends. 
The principal implement employed in fabricating their 
combs, appears very plainly thro’ the glafles, to be their 
mouths or jaws. I have frequently been a diligent fpec- 
tator at fuch times, yet either thro’ the number of Bees 
about it, the continual motion, feeming confufion, or elfe 
the expedition, and quick operation with which their 
work is carried on and finifhed, I never have been able 
to enter into the fecret, and therefore muft let it pafs as 
impenetrable. 
Dr. Butler obferves that the artificial ate. which 
ferves both for ftore-houfes for their treafure, and nefts 
or nurferies to breed their young, are made of matter 
they gather from flowers, and wraught into cambs; but 
done fo nimbly, that it can fcarce be perceived. 
Thefe cells fure may be efteemed to be one of the 
moft furprizing and exquifite pieces of workmanthip. 
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