TO THE 
peep gy pap Mog, 
SHE Editor having for many yeats pur 
fued the inftrudtions of his father, (who 
is the Author of the following Hiftory) hath 
made fome improvements in the art and manage~ 
ment of Bees; particularly a Glafs-hive, as res 
prefented in the plate fronting the title-page, one 
of this conftruétion was filled with fine virgin- 
honey, and being an ufeful curiofity,; was pur- 
chafed by the Society for the encouragement of 
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,who alfo pur- 
chafed one of his colonies, that they might be in- 
fpeéted by the curious, and brought into general 
ufe: perfuaded that the invention would prove of 
the greateft advantage to this country, they offer- 
eda prémium of two hundred pounds, in order to 
sntroduce Mr. Téorley’s, or fome other method of 
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