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ewe the brilliant discoveries, in the arts and natural histor: 
_ which excites the admiration of their cotemporaries, 
— will be the pleasure and felicity of posterity. 
Honey is used in various kinds of cookery and pharm 
and may be converted into sugar, and used in all kinds 0 
confectionary. It is, moreover, an efficacious aliment, to 
produce vigorous and glowing health in children. 
that tender age, its daily use would be much preferable ' 
that of animal food, butter or cheese. It is also a valu 
article in commerce, and, in France, it could be increa 
a hundred fold, by the great variety of forms under w 
-it could be employed. 
The wax of Bretagne is esteemed the best in Europe. 
- is pretended, that about a century ago, they bleached, in thi 
province, six hundred and fifty thousand pounds of wax” 
annum, though the produce, at this day, does not amoun 
one fourth of that quantity. | 
- When they obtained six hundred and fifty thous 
ounds of wax in Bretagne, they ought to have collec 
at least, two hundred and thirty-five thousand five hund 
quintals of honey. ‘The wax at one franc fifty centim 
pound, (about 28 cents,) and the honey at twenty-four franc 
the quintal, (about four dollars 46 cents,) would be an obj 
of about six millions one hundred thousand francs, (equa 
1,134,600 dollars;) there are five departments in Breta 
the average produce of each would be, annually, about | 
million two hundred and twenty thousand pounds, (226,' 
dollars.)* 
_ We have in the empire one hundred and thirty dep 
ments. No doubt ali of them would not attain the hei 
of these productions, but there are some of them wo 
double it: and this branch of our rural economy could e 
be quintupled, in its products, in more than two-third: 
the departments, in the interior of the empire. 
If people would consider then, what might be the impor 
ance of this branch of rural economy, in the interior, the 
would be astonished at the small portion of attention whi 
it has attracted for some years past, and even to this day 
y oa an ques of ah produce of Bretagne to the 130 depar' 
Ments, It would amount to the enormous annual sum of 158,600,00 
francs, or, 29,499,600 dollars, B ; _ 
