PREPAC E, 1%. 
nued profecution of this his favourite fludy, 
he has made a number of very important dif- 
¢overics relative ito thefe ufeful: infects, he 
thought it better to prefent thefe new ideas, 
along with the fubftance of his former work, 
comprefled into as {mall bounds as poflible, in 
a new form, and under a new title, than mere- 
ly to reprint the old work with additions. 
And the chief object of the prefent perform- 
ance being to excite the attention of the pub- 
lic in general, but efpecially of gentlemen in 
opulent circumftances, to the rearing of bees, 
by fhowing them the pracTicaBiLity of in- 
creafine the number of bee-hives in this coun- 
try at leaft TWENTY-FOLD, if not to FIFTY 
times: tae mum per there sare: at\ prefent,: he 
thought it proper to entitle the whole mafs of 
old and new matter, ‘“ A New Plan for fpeedi- 
* ly increafing the number of Bee-Hives in 
copomtiands icc,” 
Nor is it to his literary labours alone, that 
he has been indebted for the liberal encou- 
ragement he has met with. In his commercial 
concerns, asa dealer in'‘honey, he has been ho- 
noured with the patronage and employment 
of a number of the nobility and gentry in’ 
Edinburgh, Newcaftle, and many other places ; 
for 
