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Sect. XIV 



7 



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leaves, which were concealed from the fun, appeared 

 the honev-dew. and fome of them none of it. 



have lefs of 



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this honey-dew h 



ed hefore I obferved 



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but probably 



y days, as the weather was then, and 



had been uncommonly dry and warm, and (hining ; and aft 



th 



day 



h 



th 



ther changed, th 



d exfudaticn, if 



fuch it was, or the excrementitious depofition of this vifcid honey, 

 became checked and gradually difappeared. 



Beneath every leaf of this extenfive hedge of filberts I difcerned 

 fifty or a hundred aphifes of all fizes, and many of them had wings ; 

 but 1 could not perceive, that any of them had been on the upper 

 furfaces of the leaves, where the honey only exifted ; nor were any 

 bees, or butterflies, or ants, about thefe leaves ; on which they muft 

 have adhered, if they had fettled ; which poilibly they were aware 

 of. as a hive of bees was at no great diftance. 



M. Duhamel obferved a fimilar fweet juice drop in fuch quantity 

 from willows by the fide of a river in very hot and dry weather, that 

 children were bufy in catching or gathering it, and that it tafted like 

 manna, but was more agreeable. He alfo mentions its dropping from 



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the Memo 



Phyfique des arbres, Vol.1, p. 150. M. Reneaumc 

 ires of the Academ. des Sciences, obferved a (imilar e 



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from the maple, and fycamore 



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was 



6tuous and fw 



That it was in the greateft quantity on th 



leaves cxpofed to the fun, which appeared 



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pper 



faces ; a 

 lefted it 



d that it was 



feen before fun-rife. 3. That bees col- 



as a 



died 



ixioufly as conimo 

 hofe difcharo^e was very 



honey 



4. And that fo 



5. That 



(led in a very 



dry and hot feafon. But neither of thefe philof)phers fpeak of its 



being attended by the aphis. 



The aphis this year was uncommonly numerous, the kaves of the 

 peach and nec^tarine trees were half of them deftroyed by thi. perni- 

 cious infed, and became bliftered and curled I fuppofc by their punc- 



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tures ; 



