882 JAMAICA. 



cells are pear-fhaped, about the fize of a bantam's egg, and filled 

 with a moft delicious honey, limpid as cryftal, extremely odori- 

 ferous, and cordial. Thele refervoirs hang conneaed together in 

 clufters, and are fo contrived, that each of them has a convenient 

 aperture during the time of work, which is doled, or fealed up, fo 

 fooh as the meafure is full. When the honey is required to be 

 taken out, the cells, or bottles, are to be pierced a little way from 

 tlie bottom, to avoid draining out the fediment, which is vifcid 

 and glutinous. This honey is gently folutive, the quantity of half 

 a pint generally caufing two or three evacuations downwards in as 

 many hours, if taken upon an empty ftomach ; but, fwallowed at 

 meals, it has not this effeft. It is, doubtlefs, applicable to very ex- 

 cellent purpofes in medicine ; and, as well as the other common 

 honey produced in this ifland, may be kept for many years in 

 bottles, without running into fermentation like that of Europe. 

 The number of thefe ufeful, little infefts is greatly diminifhed by 

 birds and other animals, who coullantly prey upon them ; but they 

 may be removed, hive and all, into the common apiary, with great 

 fafety, where they would be fecured under fome degree of pro- 

 tection. 



fPEPPER-FLY. 



.Sand-Fly. 



, Thefe are very troublefome infers, particularly in the neigh- 

 bourhood of fandy bays, on the South- fide coafl: ; but they are not 

 fo frequent in the interior parts, nor often rife to the cooler 

 mountains. 



The firft, if it happens to fall upon the tunicle of the eye, gives 

 a very difagreeable fmarting pain, refembling what is caufed by 

 .pepper. 



The fecond aflaults the hands and face; and, though extremely 

 minute, its nip, or fting, is fenfibly felt ; when the infc£l that oc- 

 cafioned it can hardly be difcerned ; though the efFcft is rather 

 teazing than painful. 



327. ClECOE, 



Otherwife called Chigoe, or Chigger, viewed through a mi- 



erofcope, cxadiy refembles a flea, and is a fpecies of the fame ge- 



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