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Of Bees. 
ceftively hatched, and foon grow to be la¬ 
bourers* the aged Bees then become full, 
heavy and idle, andfo like the Inhabitants 
of Socotora. hear /Ethiopia , when fick and 
aged, are quit of the pains and tears that 
attend longring difeafes, by a ludden dif- 
patch given them by their Indulgent Chil¬ 
dren, who hate Idlenefs even in their own 
Progenitors. 
It will be very difficult to demonftrate, 
how or after what manner the Drones (in 
cafe they are only the Male Bees) Ihould 
ingender or make pregnant the female 
Bees, in the Months of June or jfwhich 
are not to lay their eggs till the follow¬ 
ing Spring. But if you lay they lay theit 
eggs in the Summer, as the Silkworms do, 
for the fubfequent Spring,then would they 
bevifible* for the molt curious eye can¬ 
not difcern them among!!: the Virgin 
Combs of the molt profperous Stalls * Thajt 
they are carried in the bodies of thefe fup- 
pofed female Bees, all the Winter is as im¬ 
probable, fuch hot bodies being notfo dull 
in procreation as Cows, Elephants, &c. 
Therefore I hope I may (with fubmiffion 
to the Judgment of the more learned and 
experienced) affert, that thefe as well as 
other Infers, reciprocally ingender the 
one 
