2 Pleafure and Profit of keeping Bees 
years; and Philifcus retired into the woods, 
that he might have more convenient oppor: 
nities of obferving them. Among the mo~ 
derns, I fhall juft only mention Purchas, Rouf- 
| den, Geddie, Butler, Warder, Bradley, Thorly, 
Thomas and Daniel Wildman, Stephen and 
William White, and Keys, all Englifhmen, 
and Robert Maxwell, a Scotchman ;—all of 
whom have publifhed treatifes on them, the — 
moft of which have appeared within this 
century; and they have given many ufeful di- 
rections how to manage bees, according to the 
knowledge they had attained to, re{pecting 
that admirable infect. i 
The knowledge of bees, like that of many — 
other things, is found out by degrees, and may 
be faid, in fome meafure, to be ftill but ina ftate 
of infancy, as appears by the many miftakes fal- -__ 
len into, and taught by thofe who have wrote 
on that fubject, notwithftanding their fair pro- 
mifes in their title pages ; as— A Complete 
“ Guide for the management of Bees,” &c. They 
have all been ftrangely mifled in their opinion © 
about the generation of bees, afferting that the 
Queen lays three different kind of ELS, VIS 
one kind for the produétion of the Queen Bee, 
another for that of the “V orking Bees, and a 
third - 
