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der abilities, and communicated every obser- 
vation and experiment worth mentioning, f 
have only to request their candor and indul- 
gence, and if this treatise shall be instrumen- 
tal, in any respect, to benefit and profit my 
fellow-creatures, I shall be amply rewarded 
for the labor and pains I have taken for that 
purpose. As the principal object of this 
treatise is to promote the instruetion and good 
of others, I have only to say, that if in any 
thing Iam mistaken, I shall be glad to be set 
right, for the more we know of those indus- 
trious and profitable insects, the Bees, the 
more we may be perplexed, but we shall be 
led to admire and adore their wonderful pro- 
perties and economy, though no man can 
search them out to perfection. 
P.S. Any gentleman whose Bees have 
omitted swarming, and who is desirous of 
increasing his stock, may have swarms taken 
out of any old hive, by Epwarp Town ey, 
the author, which shall do as well, or better, 
than those which come forth of their own 
