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they rdrl alofig, and repeated it as long as they had 
any t6 difcharge, and then quit it; which is the 
Reafon why the outward Border of the Cells is fo 
thick and ftrong : And immediately afterwards, other 
Bees came along the Cells, and withtheir fore Feet 
rais'd up the Borders like Pafte, and thinning it, 
whilft other Bees were ripping off with their Teeth, 
and pruning away any irregular Excrefcences, fo as 
to make the Diviftons of the Cells vaftly thinner 
than the Borders or Edges, which were always thick 
and ftrong, from the difeharging the Faces or Wax 
upon them. 
M. Reaumur has very juftly obferved, that, bcfidcs 
the three tranfparent fmooth Eyes, which the Bee 
has placed in a Triangle betwixt the Antenna on 
the Top of its Head, the Bee has alfo on each Side 
of its Head an Eye, or rather a Multitude of Eyes, 
form'd byaNumberofdiftinffZ/fws’sfurrounded each 
with fhort Hairs, which are confirm'd to be Eyes, both 
from Swammerdam , and his own Experiments to 
determine it 5 and that, notwithftanding thefe Lenss 
are lin’d with a dark opaque Subftance, yet they aflift: 
fo much their Vifion, that, when darkened by Paint 
laid over them, the Bees could not find their Way 
to their Hive, tho’ at a fmall Diftancc, but foar’d 
diredly upwards ,* nor could they find their Way 
when the three fmooth Eyes were darkened. 
But there is one Obfervation, which I don't find 
he has made, which may have determined the Gar- 
den Bees to make alrnoft all their Cells imperfed 
Hexagons. The Obfervation is this ; that thefe opaque 
Eyes on each Side of the Head, confift: of many 
Lens’ Si each of which is a perfed Hexagon; and the 
whole 
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