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Defeription of the Bee. } Bia 

A Beé is an Infeét,* and 4 Gib Ine 
F coitus of three principal Parts, viz. the 
Head, the Breaft, and the Belly ; the firft is the 
leaft, ‘and the laft is the largeft of the three.” . 
In the Head (which is of a triangular 
Form) we are to’ confider the external Parts ; 
_ the Eyes, the Mouth, or Jaws, the Tongue 
-or Trunk, and the Hong. 
Firft the two Luminaries, or hele 
the Body, the Eyes, which are of an oblong” 
- Figure, black like Jet; tranfpatent and im- 
’ moveable, covered’ and defended ftom all 
Injuries, by an horny Tunicle, not eafily pe- 
netrated ; therefore an effetual Security to- 
their Siche, which fomée Writers tell us is ~ 
‘their weakeft Senfe ;| tho’ fometimes'T have 
found it quick enough to my Sorrow.* The 
 faid Eyes ferve as two Cheeks, and fupply 
their: Place; ‘on ‘each Side one. ~ 
The fecon’, is'the Mouth, or Jaws, open- 
ing like the Mouths of othe Fifhes, to the 
Right and Left, ferving;-inftead of Hands, st 
 carty. out of the Upmived WHA reve offends, ‘i 
cumbers, or incommiodes them, . , 
Here! are their Teeth; by which, in their 
Wars and Battles: among themfelves, - they 
kill one another, and not with their Stings, 
as fomé afiert, ate others fuppofe, In the 
Space 
* Ab infecare. : 
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