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surface polished and sleek, and its inward 

 hairy, like a common brush. With these 

 two instruments they prepare their wax and 

 honey. The materials of their wax lie in 

 the form of dust upon the amina of flowers. 

 When the Bee would gather this dust, she 

 enters the flower, and takes it up by means 

 of her brush, to which it easily adheres. She 

 comes out all covered with it, sometimes 

 yellow, som.etimes red, or according to its 

 native colour. If those particles be inclosed 

 in the capsula of a flower, she pierces it with 

 her long moveable teeth, and then gathers 

 them at her leisure. When this little animal 

 is thus loaded, she rubs herself to collect 

 her materials, and rolls them up in a little 

 mass. Sometimes she performs this part of 

 her business by the way ; sometimes she 

 stays till she comes back to her habitation. 

 As soon as they are formed into a ball about 

 the size of a grain of pepper, she lodges it in 

 her little basket, and returns with a joy pro- 

 portionable to the quantity she brings. The 

 honey of the Bees is found in the same place 

 with the wax ; and it is lod.(yed in little 

 reservoirs, placed at the bottom of the flowers. 

 Makaldt, and De Reaumei;. 



