

The Defcription, or Anatomy of the Bee. 55 
Their fimelling is excellent; and by this fenfe they 
prefently, inthe dark hive, find out ftrangers and rob- 
bers, as well as drones. 
Their hearing and feeling are the fame. The lighteft 
touch of the hive, &&c. they prefently perceive, witnefs 
the noife within, and their apearance at the door. 
They as quickly diftinguifh taftes, wherein they are 
exceeding curious. And their internal fenfes, or quali- 
ties, are far more excellent, as obferved before, 
What creatures do we find more full of wonders, or 
exprefling greater excellencies? not to be met with in 
beings of much larger bulk, 
How curious their form and compofition? fuch a va- 
riety of parts, number of joints, and their conneétions, 
fo regularly and moft admirably difpofed, in fo {mall a 
fabrick ? *¢ All which, befides what lyes out of fight, do 
 « abundantly demonttrate, and evidently prove the infi- 
<¢ nite wifdom and power of the great Creator; which 
<< we ought to acknowledge and admire in the meaneft 
“< infect, and moft contemptible animal; in an ant, as 
much as.in an elephant. 
«“ Thefe infects may jufly plead equality with the 
«e greatelt beings. upon earth, and boaft with the beft 
«¢ among them, the proudeft monarch and moft glorious 
« below, faying, (Z/? Deus in nobis) here behold the pow- 
<< er of God, the prefence of Deity ! 
«¢ And it may be queried whether the Divine Provie 
*¢ dence, in its moft fublime and myfterious operations, 
re calls more for our wonders, than in the contrivance, 
policy, Sc. imparted to thefe little creatures, or little 
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