Their Improvement, &c. 183 
with Lions, and: other Creatures, which / 
looked upon as foreign to their: Improve- 
ment. And when I came to-examine his 
Hives, but efpecially his Boxes, I found 
them fo contrary, to common Report, as 
proved a much greater Difappointment. 
To the beft of my Remembrance, I faw 
not above two. Boxes in any one of his 
Colonies; the reft were fingle, and not in . 
very promifing Circumftances, 
- But I ought-to tell my Reader this View 
was in September, after the Colonies and 
Hives were reduced both in Numbers and 
in Riches; fo that I faw them at a Difad- 
" advantage. | 
Neither did the Pofition of many of his 
Hives pleafe.me. In fhort, by the beft 
udgment I could form upon the whole, 
all. the annual Profits of his Apiary could 
not amount to Ten Pounds, 
- I afterwards drank fome of his Mead, of 
feveral Years old, which was very good. 
At Night I returned to the City as wife as 
L left it, greatly difappointed in my Expec- 
tations, And found how I had been im- 
paled upon by common Reporte 
