Of the Honey- Dew. 16t 
And certain it is, that the hotteft and 
drieft Summers do »produce the g eate ft 
and moft frequent Honey-Dews. And in 
cold and wet Seafons, few or none of them 
are to be feen. 
It is the moft generally received and pre- — 
vailing Opinion, that thefe Honey-Dews 
confift of Vapours raifed in the third Region, 
and being thoroughly purged and digefted 
by the Heat of the Sun, and condenfed, fall 
down to the Earth. 
- But as Plenty of Honey falls from above, 
fo is there a native Sweetnefs in Plants, ' 
Flowers, &c. whence the Bees carefully and 
conftantly gather it; and as they extract it 
from the Flowers, ‘they do not (as fome 
Writers affirm) defecate, concoct, and refine 
it; but as Nature produces it, they fill their 
little Baggs with it, immediately tran{port it 
to their Hives, and difcharge it into the 
_ Magazines; which done they go back for 
more. 
Much lefs do Bees make the Honey, tho’ 
fome tell us the Dew is not Honey, except 
it be gathered by the Bees, concocted in 
their Bodies, and condenfed by their Heat 
in the Combs. 
And it is the Opinion of many Authors, 
that there is no material or fubftantial Dif- 
ference between the Honey-Dew, and the 
ancient Manna of the J/raehtes in the Wil- 
dernefs, 
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