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tion ; in order to determine that, he makes an off- 
fet either South or North- (we’ll fuppofe North) an 
hundred Perch or Rod, f if it be more, it will ftill 
be more exact, becaufe the Angle will not be fo 
acute) then he takes out another Bee and lets him 
go, ob erving his Courfe aho very carefully, for he 
being loaded will, as the firft, (after he is mounted a 
convenient height ) fly direftly to the Hive: this 
lecond Courfe, (as I muft call it) the Hunter finds 
to be South, 54 Degrees Weft • then there remains 
nothing but to find out where the two Courfes in- 
terfed or, which is the fame thing, the Diftance from 
B to A, or from C to A 9 as in the Figure, Tab. 3 d. 
for there the Honey-Tree is. 
For which Reafon, if the Courfe of the fecond 
Bee from c had been South-weft, and by South, viz. 
to D, then the Hive-Tree muft have been there for 
there the Lines are found to interfere 
The Foundation of all this is the (freight or di- 
rect motion of Bees-, when bound home with their 
Honey, and this is found to be certain by the Ob- 
fervation and Experience of our Hunters every 
lear, and efpecially of late I ears, fince this Mathe- 
matical way of finding Honey in the Woods has been, 
ufed with fuch Succefs. * 
An ingenious Man of my Acquaintance the iaft 
i ear took two or three of his Neighbours that knew 
nothing of the matter, and after he had taken Lis 
Bees, fet the Courfes the firft and fecond Bee fteered 
made the off-fet, and taken the Diftance from the two’ 
Stations to the Jnterfechon,he gave orders to cut down 
luch a Tree, pointing to it; the Labourers failed 
and were confident there was no Honey there for 
they could not perceive the Tree to be hollow, or to, 
have. 
