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the Hive upon the Ground upon 4 Sheet or Board 
near the Place, having laid under it two Sticks of a- 
pout an Inch Diameter, and a Foot afunder, to rear 
up the skirts of the Hive, that no Bee may be crufh- 
ed by the Hive, and that the Beés may more readi- 
ly enter, and that fuch Bees as are within hearing, 
and hanker about the Place, may come to_ their 
Fellows ; but if you remove the Hive immediately 
to the Bee-Houfe, or to any Diftance from the 
Place where the Swarm pitched, many will be loft, 
or at leaft return home again, tothe Damage of the 
Swarm: When they have ftood thus till Evening 
remove them to the Stool, or Stand in the Bee- 
Houfe, where they are to remain. If they fhould . 
fettle very high on the Top of a ‘Tree, where you 
cannot come coveniently to fhade them, and they 
be upon a fingle Bough, the beft way is, with a very 
fharp Knife to cut the Bough off} and having before 
tied a String to it, to let it down to the Ground up- 
on a Board or Sheet, and fo fhading them,and place- 
ing the Hive over them, they will foon be hived, in 
the manner betore directed : ‘This whole Action muft 
be done very gently, left by fhaking the Swarm too 
much, the Bees be fcattered, and befide the lofs of | 
the Swarm, the Operator may be moft dreadfully 
ung. AIS 
If they fhould fettle very high, and that around the. 
Trunk of the Tree, fo that it will be impoffible to 
get them all into the Hive together, carry up a 
Cloth with you, and getting as many as you can in= 
to the Hive,cover them in the Hive with the Cloth, ~ 
and bring it down with the Mouth upward, and fet 
them upon the Ground upon a Board or Sheet, as 
before directed 5 let the Remainder be brought into 
another empty Hive, covered in the fame manner, 
and when the Hive is down, knock them out by the 
fide of the former, and ‘place the firft Hive over 
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