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Mr. deb raw’s Difcoveries. 
of which is loft every feafon for want of keeping up a 
fufficient ftock of bees to collect it. 
The practice of this new art, Mr. schirach tells us, 
has already extended itfelf through Upper Lufatia, the 
Palatinate, Bohemia, Bavaria, Silefia, and even in Poland. 
In fome of thofe countries it has excited the attention 
and patronage of government; and even the Emprefs of 
Ruffia has thought it of fuch importance, that fhe has 
fent a perfon to Klein Bautzen, to be inftruded in the 
general principles, and learn all the nunutia ot this new 
art. 
The narrow limits of this paper do not permit me 
here to give an account of Mr. schirach’s ingenious ob- 
fervations. I beg leave to refer the curious reader to the 
work itfelf, which, with the reviewers, I with was tranf- 
lated into the Englifh language, as it contains many par- 
ticulars highly deferving the notice of the fpeculative 
naturalift, as well as of thofe who cultivate bees either 
for profit or amufement. 
