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other ufe, but was not able for a confiderable 
time, to enter into the {ecret. 
“ “At laft, viewing a hive of bees very bufy 
at labour, I obferved one bee among the reft, 
as {he fixed upon the alighting place, of an 
unufual appearance; upon which I feized 
her direly, before fhe had time to enter the 
hive ; where, with a very fenfible pleafure, I 
Ea what I had (cill then) been in vain 
fearching for. Upon the belly of this bee, 
within the plaits, were fixed no lefs than fix 
pieces of folid wax, perfe&tly white and tran- 
{parent like gum; three upon one fide, and 
three upon the other, appearing to the eye e- 
qual in bulk and gravity ; fo that the hee 
of the bee feemed duly poifed, and the fi ap 
‘not in the leafeob trusted by any inequal 
ties. 
“ Here have I found it at other times, and 
once I took away eight pieces together, and I 
knew that it was wax, and nothing elfe. Wall 
not this pafs for demonftration >?” 
That Mr Tuortey, and probably fome o- 
thers, have feen bees carrying fuch white fcales, 
or pieces of folid wax, on their bodies, once 
or twice perhaps in their lives, I will not dif 
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