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CHAP. IV. 
On the common Bees, 
The term common Bees, working Bees, or mules, 
will apply to ail the others in the swarm, excepting 
the queen and the drones ; because they form the 
mass of the community, and do the labour, by laying 
in stores for the hive, and nourish the brood, and are 
neutral in their propagation. Much curious hypothe- 
sis has appeared amongst Apiarians, upon the order 
and regularity in apportioning the employments and 
tasks of labour in the community ; but this is now ge- 
nerally exploded, and each Bee is left to the govern- 
ment of his own instinct, in apportioning and per- 
forming his several duties. 
The whole field of nature abounds with the inex- 
plicable mysteries of providence j and the Bee, by her 
wonderful sagacity, has unlocked one of those myste- 
ries, by extracting honey from plants, and flowers, and 
converting it to the support of herself, and the use of 
man ; but how this honey is produceil in the opera- 
tions of nature, in the growth of the plants, and how 
the Bee extracts it in exclusion to the other juices of 
the same plants, is all inexplicable to us, and is one, 
amongst the millions of nature’s works, to show how 
little of nature man can know. 
. 1 slialj continue this chapter with a description of 
the Bee by Mr. Huish. “ In regard to the physical 
descri|nion of the Bee, the most remarkable parts of 
it are the head, the breast, and the belly. On the 
former afe observed two wonderful eyes placed in 
the side, two anlennaB, two hard teeth, or jaws, which 
play, on opening and shutting, from the left to the 
right. These teeth enable it to collect the wax, to 
knead it, to construct the cells, and to remove from 
the hive every obnoxious thing. Below these teeth 
we observe a (iroboscis, which has the appearance 
of a thick fleshy substance, of a very shining ches 
