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Of Beef. 
CHAP. IV. 
Of the Bee-Hives or Houfes. 
I ^Efore we did obferve, that fome of 
the ancient Bee-Mafters had made 
Hives of tranlparent Matter, that they 
might the better difcern the Work of the 
Bees* which it feems did not fucceedac¬ 
cording to expectation, elfehad they been 
more frequently uled and approved of by 
the Reporters of them. Butler alfo con¬ 
demns the ufc of them to that intent. And 
moft true it is, that you cannot through 
the cleared Glals dilcern their working, 
nor yet their Combs, unlcfs in July or A'u- 
gujl about Noon, when moft of the Bees 
are abroad, and their Company begin to 
wax thin by their killing their Drones and 
death of their old Bees,which now through 
their conftant and extraordinary labour 
have worn out their Wings,and fail far from 
home, uncapable of ever returning. 
For oft their Wings are torn on Rocks a- 
hroad y 
Freely pending their hives beneath their 
Load: 
In 
