VARIETIES OF HONEY. Ill 



some of the peasants have four or five hundred 

 bee-hives, and make more profit of their bees than 

 of their corn. In Spain, also, the number of bee- 

 hives is said to be immense, a single parish priest 

 having been known to possess five thousand. 



Rock-honey, found in some parts of America, 

 is thin and clear as water, and is the produce of 

 wild bees, which suspend thirty or forty waxen 

 cells, resembling a bunch of grapes, to a rock. 



Green honey, found in the Isle of Bourbon, and 

 exported to India, where it fetches a high price, is 

 the produce of a bee much esteemed in that island. 

 It produces sweet and fragrant honey, of the con- 

 sistency of oil, and of a green colour. 



