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line return to the hive : nature has also endowed them 
with instinctive powers sufficient to produce snow-white 
wax, from pure honey, and that too in cells of perfect 
symmetry, from “ Sultry India to the Pole she has 
taught the bee to collect honey, prepare wax, perpetu- 
ate its race, and has endowed it with all that Sagacity, 
and with those qualities best adapted for its peculiar 
circumstances, in the sphere of its existence. The bee 
is no less wonderful in its form of body, than in its in- 
stinct and sagacity. The proportion and symmetry is 
perfect ; the harmony in combination of its parts, agree- 
able to the design of its creation. The bee has a large 
round eye on each side of its head. It has two strong 
teeth, which enable it to construct the cells, and to carry 
from the hive obnoxious substances. Below the teeth 
is the probossis, and within the mouth a long tongue. 
The bee has four wings and six legs ; in the third pair 
of legs are two triangular cavities, to which they attach 
the pellets of pollen, which they carry to the hive ; a 
part of the second pair is provided with what resembles 
brushes, for brushing off the pollen to be deposited in 
the hive. At the extremity of the six feet are fangs, 
with which the bees attach themselves to the sides of 
the hive, and to each other. The probossis is the prin- 
cipal organ employed in collecting honey ; it is defend- 
ed by a scaly sheath, when inactive. “ The stomach 
consists of two parts, connected by a tube somewhat like 
the crop of the feathered tribe. In the first apartment, 
the nectar of flowers is elaborated into honey ; in the 
second, a portion of honey undergoes the action of the 
digestive powers, and is converted into the use of the 
