Their Method of Generation. 1 2k 
from them two Commanders,’ four at two 
other Times, and another Time: three ; be- 
ing nine in all: After which’ they rofe 
no more. The remaining Sovereign, and 
the other which went out’ with the Swarm, 
made them up eleven in all, which I con-. 
cluded was the whole Number bred in that 
Colony, not finding any other expelled and 
flain. 
But as a fingle Stock feldotn {warms oft- 
mer than twice or thrice, and a few of the 
Blood Royal are fufficient, it is very probable 
the Number feldom amounts to fo many. 
Our Numbers thus multiplying, and Hives | 
filling apace, and ready to grow up into 
amore Families, in Swarms foon expected; the 
next Thing to be dohe, is to provide them con- 
venient Habitations ; which leads me to fake 
-a Survey of their Skill! in Geometry: and 
Architecture’ i in the crate mee is n 


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