288 November 1748. 



To judge by thefe qualities the Tuckahoo 

 may very likely be the Arum Virginianum. 

 Compare with this account, what mall be 

 related in the fequel of the Tahim and 

 'Tuckah. 



After dinner I again returned to town. 



November the 8th. Several Englifi and 

 Swedifi oeconomifts kept bee-hives, which 

 afforded their pofferTors profit : for bees fuc- 

 ceed very well here : the wax was for the 

 moft part fold to tradefmen : but the honey 

 they made ufe of in their own families, in 

 different ways. The people were unani- 

 mous, that the common bees were not in 

 North America before the arrival of the 

 Europeans ', but that they were firft brought 

 over by the Englifi who fettled here. The 

 Indians likewife generally declare, that their 

 fathers had never feen any bees either in 

 the woods or any where e\ie, before the 

 Europeans had been feveral years fettled 

 here. This is further confirmed by the 

 name which the Indians give them : for 

 having no particular name for them in their 

 language, they call them Englijlo Jfies, be- 

 caufe the Englijli firft brought them over : 

 but at prefent they fly plentifully about the 

 woods of North America. However it has 

 been obferved that the bees always when 

 they fwarm, fpread to the fouthward, and 



never 



