14. THE HiS TORWOF BEES. 
following (the weather being tolerable) you may expect — 
the {warm. wits : 
t is delightful to attend to thofe peculiar and mufical 
~ founds or-notes, being an eighth or chord, which is tru- 
ly harmonious. Dr. Butler has’‘taken pains to fhew us 
the compafs the fong contains in the gamut, or feale of 
mufick: the Queen compofing her part (or bafs) within 
the four lower cliffs; and the Princefs hers (a treble) in 
the four upper cliffs. The fwarm ready to come forth, 
the notes are louder, quicker, and more conftant. When 
the greater part of the {warm is out, the mufick is at an 
end, and we hear no more. Sometimes the royal grant. 
is revoked, and then all the royal iflue are flain. 
As every general rule has an exception, I muft tell my 
reader, that the fecond day of Fune 1716. after a {warm 
was come out, that very evening, and the two follow- 
ing, they gave notice for a fecond {warm, which rofe 
the fifth day, when I joined them to the firft. That 
night, and the next, they called as before, and rofe 
twice; I returned them both times, at each taking a 
Queen from them: afew days after they rofe a third 
time, fettled, yet went home again. Finally, they rofe 
a fourth time, when I took two Queens from them, 
putting them back to the old ftock, after which they 
came forth no more. I mention this as being very fin- 
gular, and what I never obferved before, nor fince. 
E very perfectly remember, tho’ many years ago, I 
heard thefe previous notices given for a firft fwarm, 
which are exceeding rare (that being the only timeI 
ever took knowledge of them) and in a colony too; where 
placing 
