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leaves, fipping the honey dew; which agrees 
nearly with the Abbe BotssIzER DE Sau- 
VAGEs’s account of it, in France, as quotcd 
by WitpMAN, p. 80, et feq. For my part, 
although’I have often travelled many miles, in 
the fineft weather, to places where oaks were 
growing in great abundance, in order to fatis- 
fy myfelf on that point, yet I never could 
difcover a fingle drop of honey dew on them, 
or any bees to collect it. And many perfons 
have aflured me, that they never faw a fingle 
bee upon an oaken leaf collecting honey. I 
am, neverthelefs, far from difcrediting the re- 
port; as thofe who are fituated nearer exten- 
five woods, have doubtlefs much better oppor- 
tnnities of afcertaining this fad, than I. And 
that there’ are honey dews to be difcovered in 
- fuch fituations, I readily believe; as I have of- | 
ten obferved my own bees collecting honey 
from the outhdes of the fockets of different 
flowers, particularly from thofe of the wild 
runches, inftead of extracting it by their pro- 
bofcis from the infide. I have fometimes, 
though very feldom, obferved them, in a fine 
morning, about fan-rife, bufily employed upon 
the leaves of the white thorn, at a feafon 
when there was not a fingle flower to be feen 
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