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_ faid hive ; or this Bee, thus difcarded or deftroyed, of 
a late extraction. 
The former, fo directly contrary to the general opini- 
on, obfervation, and conftant daily experience, is not to 
be admitted ; and fuppofing, yet not granting, it as mat- 
ter of fact, I query, why this fupernumerary fhould be 
fuffered fo many months, even all the winter feafon, and 
expelled only in fpring. | 
It feems moft reafonable therefore, upon the whole, 
to conclude this Bee was born out of due time, produced 
too early for the {warms, and for that reafon thus depo- 
fed. Upon which hypothefis our fundamental principle 
remains firm and unfhaken. But fhould the contrary 
appear, it would be but a fingle exception from a-gene- 
ral rule, Should any fuller evidence appear needful in 
what is now under our confideration, I will only add as 
follows, and with an air of certainty and affurance alfo, 
as final and conelufive, that in all the ftocks I have for 
the {pace of thirty years united, (particularly near fifty 
the laft Ofober) Tnever, on the ftricteft fearch, found 
more than one Commander; which Ithink amounts to 
demonftration. 
Thefe infeéts then, without controverfy, are governed 
by a fingle Soveréign, as abfolute as the grand feignior 
himfelf. eee 
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