NATURAL HISTORY: 119 
fethy feat, which is the real tongue of this Flie, with which it licks 
the trunk. The body is longer than that of any other Bee; and the 
Tings that compofe the trunk neareft the breaft-plate, are reddifh on 
the upper part. They make their nefts in the earth, nine or ten in- 
thes deep; and fome of thefe Flies are armed with a fting, which are 
the females ; but the males, which are larger, have none. - : 
The Tapeftry Bees are fo called, from lining their. nefts with a fort of 
tapeftry, which they get from thé flowers of the wild poppy, newly 
blown, placing bits thereof at very {mall diftances from each other. 
he places where they chtife to build their nefts in the earth, are by 
the fides of highways, and the paths in corn fields. It is more hairy 
than the common Bee, but much of the fame colour, only fhorter in 
Proportion ; when their neft is finifhed, they fill it with pafte like fome 
‘ef the former. 
There are feveral forts of foreign Bees, particularly thofe of Gaudas 
houpe, which are lefs by one half than the European, and they are more 
black and round. They have no fting, and they make their hives in’ 
hollow trees, where if the hole that they meet with, is too large, they 
Make themfelves a fort of a waxen houfe, in the fhape of a pear, and 
ta which they lodge, place their honey, and lay their eggs. Their wax 
Is black, or at leaft of a deep violet-colour. They lay up their honey 
™m waxen veffels, of the fize of a pigeon’s egg, and in the fhape of the 
air-bladders of carps; and they are fo joined together, that there is no 
{pace left between them. The honey is always fluid, of the confiftence 
ef oil, olive, and of the colour of amber. The wax is always too foft for 
fandles, and therefore they make ufe of it inftead of corks, to ftop up’ 
their bottles ; and it is very good to foften corns on the feet, and warts 
®n the hands, and when it las been applied for fome time, the corns 
May be drawn out. 
In Ethiopia there are little black Bees that make excellent honey, and 
they have no fting. In the Canary J/lands, there are {warms of Bees 
®n the mountains, which produce large quantities of honey, but they 
are of different kinds. The Bees of Guiney make excellent wax, and 
delicious honey. In Congo and Angola there are two forts of Bees, ong 
Of which make their neft in the middle of woods, and the other on the 
Toofs of houfes. Authors and travellers take notice of feveral forts of 
Sees, but as they are not particularly defcribed, nothing more needs 
* be faid about them. 
Ce he A. IX. 
OF INSECTS OF THE ANT KIND: 
HE Ant is an infect that keeps together in companies like the 
Bees, and maintain a fort of a republic, governed by laws. The 
Reft is not exactly {quare, but longer one way than the other, and in it 
“here are a fort of paths, which lead to different Magazines. Some of 
© Ants are employed in making the ground firm, by mixing it with 
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