
Of the Bees Works, &c. 133 
them roll in the yellow Daft, 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 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 collect new Store, while thofe which helped 
to unload, convey their Charge into the gene- 
tal Magazine; yet fome of the other convey 
it to the Apartments, and unload it them- 
felves,* But that is a Work of Supereroga- 
tion. And why not all of them? All this 
is fo entirely Fancy, and far from Fad, as 
_ to need no further Confutation. 

That I may more fully fatisfy my Reader 
in this Point, and at the fame time fhew how 
remote the faid Authors were from Truth, 
I fubjoin the following Remarks. 
It is fo fully manifeft and obvious, that 
what is for feveral Months together fo plen- 
tifully imported into the Hives, is not Wax, 
nor hath the leaft Affinity with Wax, that 
it is not to be contradicted, tho’ feveral of 
our Writers contend for it, and it is generally 
accounted fuch by the Populace, 
, K 3 a Ba 
* Nat, Delin. p. 106. | 
