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none of them died, but the next day they recovered their 

 senses, and on the third or fourth, they were able to stand.* 



MRS. F. 



I have seen people suffer very severely from eating honey 

 in this country. It is a singular fact in the geographical 

 distribution of insects, that the honey and wax of Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa are all prepared by bees of the same genus 

 with our common hive bee;| while in America the genus 

 Jlpis is no where indigenous, but is replaced by two other 

 genera,^: and in New Holland, by one still more different. 



The other day, I had a present made me of some green 

 honey, which is much esteemed for its perfume, as well as 

 for its other qualities; and is, I am told, collected by the bees 

 of Madagascar on the mountains, from the heath which grows, 

 in that country, to an enormous size. 



MRS. F. 



In Ireland, the honey collected from the mountain heath is 

 also highly esteemed ; but the Narbonne honey is said to 

 derive its peculiar taste from the quantity of rosemary which 

 grows in the neighborhood. 



FREDERICK. 



The ancients used, sometimes, to put dead bodies into 

 honey, in order to preserve them from putrefaction. 



MRS. F. 



Yes; according to Statius, the body of Alexander the 

 Great was so deposited. Honey was also poured upon the 

 Tyrian purple, to keep it fresh; and some, that had been thus 

 preserved unimpaired for 200 years, was found at Susa by 

 Alexander the Great. 



* Anabasis, b. iv. chap. viii. t Apis. 



J Melipona and Trigona. 

 Lyell's Geology, vol. ii. p. 114. 

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