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it, and driving the Bees into it, is preferable to 
fmoking : For then a very few Bees will remain in 
the full Hive; and thofe few may be ftupefied, and 
the Bees in the empty Hive being put on a Table, 
the Combs may be taken out and feledtcd at Ieifure, 
without Hazard ; and afterwards the empty Hive 
may be turn d up, and their old Hive fet over them, 
fo that they will go up without Scruple into their 
former Hive, and repair their Work, by making new" 
Combs : And it the Queen had not quitted the old 
Hive, as is often the Cafe, then they would return 
to their Queen, and the Society would not, be loft, 
as is fometimes the Cafe, in driving into an empty 
Hive. 
Thefe, Sir, are the few Remarks I have made on 
reviling M. Reaumur's curious Obfervations on Bees, 
which I thought incumbent upon me to fend you, 
to lay before your Learned Society , if it may con- 
tribute towards finilhingthe Natural Hiftory of Bees. 
I fhall take up no more of your Time, than to af- 
fure you, that I am, with the greateft Regard, 
SIR, 
Tour mojl obedient , and moft humble Servant , 
Arthur Dobbs. 
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