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Containing ful and plain Direbtions, how to preferve the 
_ Lives of thofe moft valuable Infeéts, when | you become 
Ma afters of their Treafure. 
a BE prefervation : and improvement of Bees 
| nee ay) in colonies, has been no fecret, fince Mr. 
Bart a Feddie’s happy invention. And how ef- 
oa fe€tually to promote the faid ends i in the 
way of common hives is the defign of this chapter. 
From the long obfervation 1 have made of thefe very 
wonderful creatures, and. their inimitable excellencies, 
together with their great ufefulnefs to mankind, I am 
become one of their greateft admirers, and a publick ad- 
yocate for them. Moft folemnly protefting againit all 
that notorious ingratitude of their cruel owners, who 
not content with all their treafure (colle&ted with infi- 
nite pains, and many perils) devote them to deftrudtion 
without any diftin&tion, to their own great lofs. 
Is no regard due to thefe creatures of God, which are 
fo excellent in themfelves, and ferviceable to men? when 
the following pages will make it appear, with how little 
trouble, and without any expence, the owners may come 
at their riches, with fafety to their lives ; thofe who hall 
hereafter doom them to the common death, muft be al- 
together without excufe. The 
