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READ became the natural confequencc; but 

 through intervals of dry weather; or through 

 a plentifulnefs of leaf -honey; the collection of j 

 HONEY was fufficiently ample. While the 

 bread laftcdthebecs lived. Nordid they, when 

 it was confumed, die at once, as when their 

 entire (lore is exhaufted. The honey pro- 

 longed their lives for a time ; proportioned, 

 perhaps, to their refpective ages or conftitu- 

 trons ; the individuals following each other 

 as difeafe and famine overcame them ; un- 

 til the whole perimed : not through a \vant 

 of HONEY ; but for the want of a more fub- 

 fb.ntial food : their STAFF OF LIFE. 



R 2 WOLDS. 



