10 ; 
It chills and benumbs their little Biliges | 
fo that their animal Spirits, are very 
little wafted by Perfpiration and con- 
fequently there is little or no Occafion 
to recruit them by eating. If a fharp 
Froft contiunes for two or three 
Months, without Intermiffion, you 
may obferve, through your Glafs, that 
the Bees are all this Time clofely link- 
ed together in Clufters between the 
Combs. If they are not altogether 
without Motion, yet it is certain they 
ftir not from their Places, while the 
Cold continues, and therefore eat not 
at all: And if fuch a Froft was to 
laft all the Winter, our Bees, I am 
perfuaded, would be no Sufferers, either 
by the Cold, or by Fafting: On the 
contrary, they would fave all. their 
Winter Stores, and if you could fup- 
pofe the Flowers to {pring fuddenly 
out of the Ground at the End of this 
Froft, they would as fuddenly recover 
their 
