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have any hole for the Bees to enter by, and would 
have dilfwaded the Gentleman from felling the Tree, 
but he infilled on it, and offered to lay them any 
Wager that the Hive was there, and fo it proved to 
the great furprize of the Country-men. 
I cannot difmifs this Subjecl, without acquainting 
you, that all the Bees we have in our Gardens, or in 
our Woods, and which now are in great numbers, 
are the produce of fuch as were brought in Hives 
from England near a hundred Years ago, and not 
the natural produce of this part of America j for the 
firll Planters of New England never obferved a Bee 
in the Woods, until many Years after the Country 
was fettled j but that which proves it beyond quellion 
is, that the Aborigines (The Indians ) have no word in 
their Language for a Bee, as they have for all Ani- 
mals whatfoever proper to, or aboriginally of the 
Country, and therefore for many Years called a Bee 
by the name of Englijh Mans Ely . 
Our People formerly ufed to find out Honey in 
the Woods, by furprizing and following one Bee after 
another by the Eye, till at length they found out 
where the Bees hived. 
I will mention another thing with refpedl to Bees, 
fho’ I don’t know but it may have been commonly 
obferved ^ and that is, when they Swarm they never 
go to the Northward, but move Southward, or in- 
clining that way. 
I fhould have taken notice in the proper place, 
that when one Bee goes home from the Sugar-plate, 
he returns with a confidence number from the 
Hive. 
VIII. 
