
Their Nature and Properties. 5 
Maintenance and Defence, till the next ga- 
thering Seafon, 
For this the Reader will find very full 
and particular Directions towards the Clote; 
by a diligent and careful Obfervance of 
which, with a few Trials and Experiments, 
he will quickly commence Maffer of the Art. 
Thither I muft at prefent refer him ; afk- 
ing Pardon for this Digreffion. 
In that innumerable Multitude and fur- 
prizing Variety of Infects in the World made 
for the Service of Man, Bees are mott to be > 
admired; there are none ‘that can equal, much 
lefs earel them; as by their painful Labours 
and plenteous Colleétions, they contribute 
and minifter not only to the neceflary Sap: 
ports, but alfo to the pleafant and delightful 
Accommodations of Life, 
- J moft willingly allow the Silk-qworm, in 
her manifold Changes and Tranfmigrations, 
to bea very wonderful Creature, and as fuch 
may pafs for a little Miracle in Nature, 
But let it be remember’d fhe is of Ser- 
vice only in one Particular, even providing 
Raiment, and that not of equal Neceflity 
with the Bees Productions. 
The Service of thefe is much more ex- 
tenfive, furnifhing us with more neceflary 
: Things, viz. Food and Phyfick; one to 
fupport Nature, the other to heal it’s Dil- 
orders, | 
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