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induced by the prospect of gain, having re- 
moved their hives from Pennsylvania to the 
Jerseys, where there are vast savannahs 
finely painted with the flowers of the Kalmia 
angustipolia, could not use or dispose of their 
honey, on account of its intoxicating quality ; 
yet the Bees increased prodigiously, an in- 
crease only to be explained, says Dr. Bevan, 
in his Honey Bee, by their being well and 
harmlessly fed. Nor is this defence of the 
taste of Bees successfully controverted by the 
following occurrence, stated in Nicholson’s 
Journal. A large swarm of Bees having set- 
tled (observe, that they had merely alighted 
upon it, to rest, perhaps after a long flight,) 
on a branch of the poison ash, in the county 
of Westchester, in the province of NewYork, 
was put into a hive and removed to the place 
where it was to remain. . Next morning the 
Bees were found dead, swelled to double 
their natural size, and black, except a few, 
which appeared torpid and feeble, and soon 
died on exposure to the air. ‘This was at- 
