104 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
That fuch quantities of wax are depofited in the emp- 
ty cells, I never, thro’ fo long an acquaintance with 
Bees, could obferve, and know itis a great miftake, nei- 
ther is the wax, as gathered by the Bees, of different 
colours, but always white, and the flichteft examinati- 
on would have been fufficient to have convinced him 
he was in an error: nay the diverfity of the colours a~ 
lone, if attended to, would have done it. 
And as there is fo manifeft and great a contrariety in 
nature between duft and wax, it muft be an unpardona- 
ble weaknefs in fuch a profeffor thus to confound them. 
That the wax placed in the cells fhould be of fuch vari- 
ous colours ; and immediately (when formed into sys 
white, is very ftrange and unaccountable, 
In this article we alfo find a modern French author 
guilty of the fame error, telling us they always cep a 
confiderable ftock of this in referve, colle&t it in their 
hair, with which their bodies are plentifully covered o- 
ver, anditis agreeable to fee them roll in the yellow duft, 
which falls from the chives to the bottom of the flow- 
ers, and then return invefted with thofe grains. ‘They 
alfo, according to him, carry away the little particles of » 
it with their j jaws and fore-feet. 
Thefe collectors at their return have proper affiftance 
and attendants ready at the hive-door, on purpofe to eafe 
them of their loads, as foon as they arrive ; whereas the 
former repair to the field again, in order to colle& new 
tore, while thofe which helped to unload, convey their 
charge | into the general magazine ; ; yet fome of the other 
convey 
