256 INDEX. 
Virgil, a quotation from, 117. 
Virgin honey candies foon, 2133 collected from ee 2b. 
see Honey. 
Virtue, bees emblems of, I, 
Voyage to Dantzick for bees, propofed, 49. 
Ww 
War, man of, more honey and wax might be produced 
than would load a firft rate, 24- 
Wars of bees defcribed, 116, 117, 119; caufes, 1185 pre- 
ventives, 119, 120; fometimes happen at re-inforcing 
hives, 136; cannot with certainty be prevented, 137; fome- 
times occur among emigrant bees about an empty hive, 
156, 1573 fometimes by the bees miftaking their own 
hive, 158; fometimes by two {warms meeting, 1703 who 
will fight till one of their queens be killed, 26.; and make 
dreadful havock, 74.; methods to put an end to the battle, 
1713 and pacify them, 172; a duel between two Queens, 
Eihe i ie 
Wa/ps, great enemies to bees, 218 ; methods to extirpate, 7b. 
Water carriage of bees preferable to carriage by land, 50, 943 
water mixed with honey ferments,215. 
Wax moth, an enemy to bees, 220; account of its depreda- 
tions, 7. ; an imprudent remedy, 221. 
Wax, quantity of, that might be produced, 24; price might 
be much loweled, 273; would become a fourof national 
wealth, ib., 41; eftimate of the poffible increafe, 373 ap- 
plied to various ufes, 42; immenfe probable increafe of, i in 
feven years, 48; fometimes melted in the hives in very hot 
weather, 1553 method to prevent this, 2.5; difquifition re- 
fpecting the formation of it, 190, Tor; Mr Thorley’s opi- 
? 
a 192, ee ; difputed, 193, 1943 proofs of its fallacy, 
1953 the author’s opinion, 7. 196; analogies in proof of 
it, re ; ae of making or preparing wax, 209 5 and 
refining tt, 210, 211. wit etd 
Wealth, ia honey and wax, great fources of, 27, 
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