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though each of thefe fubje@s might afford an 
inveftigation ‘equally ufeful and interefting. 
On fuch fubjeéts, | have often thought, I could 
write a thoufand pages, and, after all, be far 
from exhaufting my thoughts on them. But, 
without diving deep at prefent into them, or 
entering the lifts of controverfy with other 
authors, who have wrote upon them, my chief 
defign in this treatife was— 
To excite men of property, who are the 
only proper perfons to be addrefled on the bu- 
finefs, to exert themfelves with fpirit and per- 
feverance to promote the increafe of bee-hives 
in this country, by convincing them, that the 
cultivation of bees is an important object to 
the nation at large as well as to every proprie- 
tor of them. 
To fhow, that the prices of HONEY and wax 
would be thereby greatly reduced, and confe- 
quently thefe articles would become a fource 
‘of national wealth ; and 
That Britain, inftead of experfding large 
fums of money in purchafing thefe. articles 
from foreign countries, might even be enabled 
to render them an article of exportation; and 
therefore that they merit the attention of every 
patriot and real friend to his country, Alfo, 
D2 age To 
