1244 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
: cerned it againft the light of the fun for many hours, if — 
not a whole day together. The Doéor’s reafons are. 
thefe. 
_ + When the year is backward in it’s fruits, the honey- 
dews are the fame. 
In hotter, and more fouthern climates, where the 
fruits and flowers are moft forward, thefe dews are more 
timely. Alfo becaufe thofe countries, which have the 
greateft plenty of the beft and fweeteft flowers, have al- 
ways the pureft honey. 
And certain it is, that the hotteft and drieft fummers 
do produce the greateft and moft frequent honey-dews. 
And in cold and wet feafons, few or none of them are 
to be feen. 7 
It is the moft generally received and prevailing opini- 
on, that thefe honey-dews confift of vapours raifed in 
the third region, and being thorough! y purged and di- 
gefted by the heat of the fun, and condenfed, fall down 
to the earth. 
But as plenty of honey falls from above, fo is there 
a native fweetnefs in plants, flowers, &¥c. whence the 
Bees carefully and conftantly gather it; and as they ex- 
tract it from the flowers, they do not (as fome writers af-~ 
firm) defecate, concoct, and refine it ; but as nature pro- 
duces it, they fill their little bags with it, immediately 
tranfport it to their hives, and difcharge it into the ma- 
gazines ; which done they go back for more. 
Much lefs do Bees make the honey, tho’ fome tell us 
the dew is not honey, except it be gathered by the Bees, 
concocted in their bodies, and eoienies by their heat 
in the combs. And 
