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» Mr. Mouffet fappofes they may live thirty 
Years ;and fays he knew a Stock that con- 
_ tinued in the Cicling of the Duchefs of So- 
merfet's Houfe more than three Decads of 
Years, and queftions whether they dic of 
Age at all. : 
The French Author .fays they live feven 
er eight Years, and fometimes longer. By 
Succeffion I have known them live that 
Number of Years in Hives, and adyife pone 
ta keep them fo long a Time. 


Dr. Butler affirms it, that a Bee is but a 
 Year’s Bird, with fome Advantage: And = ~ 
others fay her Age is but a Year at longeft. 
I am well aflured great Numbers of then 
die annually thro’ hard Labour. Obfer 
_ with fome Strictnefs an Hive of Bees in . 
Fuly, and you may perceive many amoneft — 
them of a dark Colour,. with Wings rent 
and torn, and: in September not one of them | 
to be feen ; and it is my Opinion that a Bee. 
lives no longer than two Summers; yet that 
is a long Life, if compared with the Wafps, 
the Drones, or the Silk-Worms. Why then 
fhould they not be fuffered to live out all 
their Time? i Mine 
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