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will in all probability arrive.at another apiary, 
where the fame inquiries and mode of invefti- 
gation fhould be repeated: Or if any hollow 
tree, church, gentleman’s manfion-houfe, old 
ruin, or any other building, fhould happen to 
lie. in the direct line, they fhould be infpected 
attentively, and proper inquiries made at the 
people in the neighbourhood, if they obferved 
a fwarm of bees flying or fettling on any of 
them. By thefe means perfevered in, a difco- 
very will certainly be made; and if the {warm 
has fettled in any fuch place, the following di- 
rections will fhow the method of taking them 
out in this and other cafes of a like nature. If 
a {warm fettle in a hollow tree, or any cavi- 
ty of a building, it will be impoffible to get it 
out by any other means, than taking them out 
by handfuls. Some indeed, alledge, that rap- 
ping will force them out; but not one {warm 
of twenty will yield to that method, unlefs the 
Queen can be laid hold of, and brought out 
The owner fhould, therefore, make as much 
room as poflible, to get his hand introduced, fo 
as to pull them out by handfuls, and put them 
into an empty hive ; and as foon as he is fo for- 
.tumate as to get hold of the Queen, he fhould 
: put her into the hive, where fhe will prevent 
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