34 Reasons for encreasing the number 
employment, if the proprietor would only 
provide them a few fmall lodgings. Will 
thefe people {till rather be at the expence of 
purchafing honey from me, or others.;.ak 2 
high rate, than rear hives to manufacture it 
for themfelves ? Will they continue to fend their 
money to Dantzick, for honey of a far inferior 
quality, rather than encourage the produce of | 
- it at home ?—Why do not the gentry of Edin- 
burgh and the neighbourhood, efpecially thofe — 
who live in the confines of the city, replenifh 
their gardens and nurferies with fome hun- 
dreds of hives, which they are fo well able to 
fill?” Similar reflections have cften ftruck my 
mind, when I have feen extenfive fields, a- 
bounding with white clover and heath, where 
the flowers, like the ftars of heaven, or the 
fand on the fea fhore, could be numbered 
not by units, tens, hundreds, or thoufands, 
but by mullions '\—Suppofe, for example, 1 
{quare yard of heath or clover to contain 500 
cups of flowers, each one of which contains — 
fome honey, what an immenfe number would 
be contained in an extent of 6 {quare miles? 
Some however here may reply, that a field — | 
may be over{tocked with bees, as well as with 
fheep or black cattle. Iwill grant that there 
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