Wy ahh & yest, me 
9 aT aa . I 
r , 7 - * ona 't 
e =) o* Re 7 
3 : ' 
Their OEconomy, &e- 5 
frequent: Obfervation I found they conti- 
nued quiet; and in Peace. 
In about a Week’s Space the Weather prov- 
ing more favourable, and inviting them to 
‘their moft delightful ‘Labouts, thefe, with the 
other Stocks; began again to work, to col- 
le&t neceflary Materials, &c. by which I faw 
they were indeed fafe, and my former Fears 
altogether without Foundation. 
Here then a Queftion may arife, whether 
or no there were two Governours all the 
receding Winter in the faid Hive; or this 
e, thus difcarded or deftroyed, of a late 
Extraction, 
The former, fo dire@tly contrary to ‘the | 
general Opinion, Obfervation, ‘and conftant 
daily Experience, is not to be admitted ; 
and fuppofitig, yet not granting, itas Matter of 
Fad, I query, why this Supernumerary fhould 
be fuffered’ fo many Months, even all the 
Winter Seafon, and expelled’ only i in Spring. 
~ It feetis moft reafonable therefore, upon 
the whole, to conclude this Bee was born 
‘out of die Time, produced too early for the 
Swarms, and for that Reafon thus depofed. 
Upon which Hypothefis our fundamental 
Principle remains firm and unfhaken. But 
fhould the contrary appear, it would be but 
a fingle Exception from a general Rule, 
Should ‘any fuller Evidence appear needful — 
in what is now under. our Confideration, 
I will only add as follows, and with an 
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