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be but of fmall advantage to them *, for which reaforr 
- likewife Glafs can be of no great ufe. 
Some think that Bees take great pTeafure in the (e 
light Hives, and are by that means more prompted 
to work ; but this is difficult to determine whether 
fo or not. 
It is not unlikely that an Hive made with large 
4 fquares, of fine Englifh Glafs that is very tranfpa- 
; rent, may not incommode Bees, provided each Glafs 
Wifidow hath a Shutter to it, to keep out the Cold, 
as the weather may require it. I agree that it yields 
the Beholder Pleafure, to fee thefe nimble Infefts al-* 
! . ways full of bufinefs while hot weather lafts, tho’ he 
^ has not the fatisfaftion of feeing their working. 
But if you defire to improve Bees to the greateft 
■ profit, obferve their Inclinations, and follow them in 
| that way they naturally take to. As, 
1. In whatever place they fettle, they begin their 
J Work above, and work downward. 
2. In a narrow place, where their number isgreat 3 
they are much hinder’d in their Work ; but in a 
broad Hive, if their number be proportionable, they 
begin many Combs, according to their number, and 
hinder not each other fo much. 
3. In Hives that are tall, when their Combs are 
of a con fiderable length, they grow weary, becaufe 
they continually go up and down in the narrow paffa- 
ges betwixt their Combs, which is troublefome, and 
hinders much thofe that are below ; for if you ob- 
ferve, you will find the uppermoft part of the talleft 
Hives are never without ,Bees, but at the coldeft time 
of the Day or Night very full, and in the hotteft 
they are afcending and descending perpetually. To 
prove this, I cut off once with a (harp Knife the top 
of a Straw Hive, and with it Tome part of the Combs, 
thinking they would as well have pafs’d out that way 
„ as at the bottom, over which t placed a glafs Hive, 
IV; after Mr. Gedde's way, thinking that if , they would 
have always afcended, they might then have built in 
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