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beautiful allufion to thefe migrations, cc The Lord 

 fhall call the fly from the rivers of Egypt, and (hall 

 hifs for the bee that is in the land of Affyria," 

 lla. vii. 1 5. which has been lately explained by 

 Mr. Bruce, in his travels to difcover the fource of 

 the Nile. 



2. I am well informed that the bees that were 

 carried into Barbadoes, and other weftern iflands, 

 ceafed to lay up any honey after the firft year, a* 

 they found it not ufeful to them : and are now be- 

 come very troublefome to the inhabitants of thofc 

 iflands by infefting their fugar-houfes ; but thofe in 

 Jamaica continue to make honey, as the cold north 

 winds, or rainy feafons of that ifland, confine them 

 at home for feveral weeks together. And the bees 

 of Senegal, which differ from thofe of Europe only 

 in fize, make their honey not only fuperior to ours 

 in delicacy of flavour, but it has this fmgularity, 

 that it never concretes, but remains liquid as fyrup, 

 (Adanfon). From fome obfcrvations of Mr. Wild- 

 man and of other people of veracity, it appears, 

 that during the fevere part of the winter feafon for 

 weeks together the bees are quite benumbed and 

 torpid from the cold, -and do not confume any of 

 their provifion. This itate of fleep, like that of 

 fwallows and bats, feems to be the natural refourcer 

 of thole creatures in cold climates, and the making 

 of honey to be an artificial improvement. 



As the death of our hives of bees appears to be 

 owing to their being kept fo warm, as to require 

 food when thdr flock is exhaufted ; a very obferv- 

 ing gentleman at my requeft put two hives for many 

 weeks into a dry cellar, and obferved, during alt 

 that time,, they did not confume any of their pro- 

 vifion, for their weight did not decreafe, as it had 

 done when they were kept in the open air. The 

 lame obfervation is made in the Annual Regifter for 

 A/68. p. 113. And the Rev. Mr. "White, in his- 



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