Xi. PREFACE. 
The author, therefore, without farther apo- 
logy, now fubmits his plan to the attention of 
the public; and he has not a doubt, but that, 
if the direGtions therein given are ftrictly ad- 
hered to, and perfevered in by gentlemen of 
property, and the public in general, in a few 
years Scotland will not only fave much money 
now fent abroad for honey and wax, but will 
even be able to render them articles of export. - 
He needs only add, that, in the following 
treatife, he has not, as too many authors in all 
branches of fcience are apt to do, {trained any 
arguments to fupport a favourite hypothefis: 
But, on the contrary, his whole theory and prac- 
tice being founded on experience and facts, he 
flatters himfelf, that he has delivered his fenti- 
ments throughout the work, in a manner {fo 
plain and intelligible, that the moft unlettered 
reader will not miftake his meaning. 
Namas 
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