



- Theip Defeription, ae. 59 
Space ‘of forty Years; I never faw one of 
thefe infects fix it’s Sting j in another, except- 
ing once. 
“Their chiefeft Strength lies in their Teeth, 
which are terrible Inftruaments of Revenge, | 
and moft fatal; for all that are thus bitten 
_ moft farely die in a fhort Space ; you may 
frequently obferve them with their Wings 
 difabled, or their Joints diflocated, which 
they cannot long furvive; for their Wounds 
are always mortal. 
The third is their Trunk or Tongue, which 
by reafon of it’s Length, the Mouth is inca- 
able of containing; but is doubled under — 
the Throat down to the Breaft, divided into 
five Branches, the outermott being asa Cafe 
to the reft. 
‘It is plant and flexible to the laft Degree, as 
_ well as taper; and of fuch ‘a Length, that the 
Bee may be the better enabled to prove and 
penetrate to the Bottom of the Flowers, and _ 
exhauft all the difperfed mellifluous Juice for 
the publick Service. 
From the fpungy Nature of this Probo- 
fis, or Polyglot, fprings that Power of — 
Sudtion, whereby they are enabled quickly 
to abforb all thofe delicious Sweets the 
Flowers, &c. fo plentifully afford them; _- 
which as they are extracted from’ Trees, 
Plants, ‘or Flowers, are directly conveyed 
into the little Bag or Bladder, in the’ third 
and. laft Divifion, by means “of two Aque- 
j ducts, 
