84 Vanden Heuvel on the Honey Bees of Guiana, &c. 
‘and thrive more under his fostering care, beneath those 
warm and indulgent skies, where nature affords nutriment 
for them in gay profusion, and lengthened summers pro- 
longing their labours render their products of greater impor- 
tance. In like manner on the Western Continent, it is in 
southern climes that they are found in greatest abundance, 
and that the results of their iudustry are most valuable. 
The ardent sun of the tropics, which generates in all veg- 
etable bodies an increased portion of saccharine matter, 
which decks the woods and groves with an endless displa: 
of blossoms and flowers, of aromatic and nectareous fra- 
grance, and distils from the trees of the forest in luscious 
streams those balmy juices with which it surcharges them, 
furnishes a region where Bees may luxuriate in “a wilder- 
ness of sweets.” Accordingly in all parts of South Ameri- 
ca, and in the West Indies, their different products form 
pointierts material et of diet and domestic wink but 
y very © srable items o mn exportation 
Alongs ‘the | ts of the Amazon, says Southey, (Ist Vol. 
rr of Brazil) ane is one of the principal articles of 
ie ae 
‘the na 
In Chili, iesordine to Molini, it is an article of commerce 
between several of the provinces 
' In Paraguay, wax is one of the two staples of trade , by 
the river La Plate, across Sr country, (Ulloa.) 
In Peru, Bees are so numerous, that — a of the 
ish Generals, on sei sprrnistet of it red a certain 
vince, scarce a mote — be cleft but hhoney flowed from 
ey.) 
The provides: of Yucatan, in New-Spain, says Hum- 
boldt, is so well stored ‘with this j insect, that waz is its prin- 
cipal export; and in the island of Cuba, adds the same au- 
thority, it is so abundant, that in 1803, 45 ,000 Arobbas, or 
one million pounds Weight of that article was exported. 
_ In regard to the remaining part of South America, the 
collection I lay before the institution, affords a suficient 
testimony to the point. ~~ 
- Such being the abundance and variety of this i insect in- the 
n portion of the continent, far superior to all similar 
ctions of the old world, the idea of its transpor to 
arts from Europe, is manifestly absurd ; and age if 
easiican Bee should be admitted not: to be indi- 
” 
