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The Defcription, or Anatomy of the Bee. 
wavy AM now entring upon a fervice, to which I 
>| am unequal, and much unqualified for. So 
many and fo great are the difficulties that 

attend enquiries of this kind, that a much 
| abler hand, and more ingenious mind, is neceflary to 
remove them, and place what comes here under confi- 
deration in a clearer and fuller view. 
After all our late improvements in natural philofophy, 
there yet remains thofe fecrets in nature, that the moft 
diligent, accurate fearch, and painful difquifition, will 
not be fufficient fully to difcover. - . 
In naturals, as well as fpirituals, we fhall know only 
in part. And after we have gone the utmoft lengths 
poffible, in fuch enquiries, there will be fome imperfec- 
tion in our knowledge, during the prefent depreffion of 
our nature. 
Many ufeful obfervations have been made in thefe lat- 
ter times, by the improvement of the microfcope ; 
whereby a very reat difference between things natural 
and artificial hath been made manifetft. 
There are fuch and fo great embellifhments and curi- 
us inimitable embroideries in the fmalleft feeds of plants 
and 
