8 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
xs ‘\s Sync AS 
has been. about the fpace of twenty years very. “curious 
in aS remarks and 4 ments, haying kept Bees both 
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into my acquaintance. 
He objects, faying, © he cannot believe the es matter 
is converted or applied to any fuch ufe, becaufe the li- 
quid, in which the worm or maggot fwims, is notin the 
leaft difcoloured by fuch a compofition or mixture. I 
cannot fay fuch a thing ever occurred to my own thoughts, 
yet to me the objection feems not to carry fuficient 
weight to turn the balance, nor to be of force enough 
to invalidate the contrary evidence, becaufe the quantity 
is fo {mall, and the mixture fo exceeding fine, that they 
cannot be eafily diftinguifhed one from the other. 
If it be further objected, that there are frequent oc- 
cafional additions of the faid grofs matter to the other in- 
gredient in this alimentory compofition, I reply, it is the 
fame as to the water, both together being duly intermin- 
ged in the fitte% and moft juft proportions. 
Who then will, or dare affirm, the element of water 
alone would as certainly and effeCtually anfwer the noble 
defign, as water together with felect and peculiar mat- 
ter collected from the flowers, when nature hath taught 
thefe infects this neceflary compofition. 
It is perfectly needlefs to obferve the many noble and 
moft excellent defigns, fubferved and accomplifhed by 
a prudent mixture of flower and water, which is the 
conftant fupport of human life. Men canrot live with- 
out bread ;. yet thefe feparate and alone could never an= 
fwer fuch a purpofe, Why then May not thefe two ine 
gredients 
