Origins of Apis Mellifica in America |
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Page 243 - The honey-bee is not a native of our continent. Marcgrave, indeed, mentions a species of honey-bee in Brazil. But this has no sting, and is therefore different from the one we have, which resembles perfectly that of Europe. The Indians concur with us in the tradition that it was brought from Europe ; but when, and by whom, we know not. The bees have generally extended themselves into the country, a little in advance of the white settlers. The Indians, therefore, call them the white man's fly, and...
Page 259 - None of them were ufeful to mankind*. There is only one at prefent, which is the bee ; but this is fuppofed to have been carried from the old to the new world. The favages call it the Englifh fly ; and it is only found near the coafts. Thefe circumftances announce it to be of foreign original. The bees fly in numerous fwarms through the forefts of the new world. Their numbers are continually increafing, and their honey, which is converted to feveral ufes...
Page 241 - An account of the most effectual means of preventing the deleterious consequences of the bite of the crotalus horridus, or rattle-snake. Philo. Trans, vol. 3d, pages 14 quarto. " 2. An inquiry into the question whether the apis mellifica, or true honeybee, is a native of America.
Page 243 - Columbus finding his (hip endangered by a violent ftorra, and fearing that the knowledge of thofe countries to which he was conducting the nations of Europe, was likely to perifh, is faid to have written an account of his difcovery on parchment, which he enclofed in a cake of wax, and then committed the whole to the fea,
Page 257 - Pauw, affigning a weaknefs of their political union as the reafon why honey-bees were not difcovered in the new-world. Raynal would, probably, reafon thus likewife, had not this fine writer believed that there is fomething in the climate of America, that is unfavourable to the generation of good things. Ye philofophers of Europe! come vifit our countries. The Reverend Mr. Heckewelder informs me, that although he has feen the true honey-bees wild in various parts of the United-States, at fome diftance...
Page 246 - Indias, which was publifhed at Madrid, in 1590, a few years after his return from Mexico, he tells us that in the Indies, under which general name he comprehends the countries of America, " there are few fwarmes of Bees, for that their honnie-combes are found in trees, or under the ground, and not in hives as in Cajlille. The honny combes...
Page 246 - I have it not in my power toconfultthe work* of Hernandez, who was fent to Mexico, at the expence of Philip the fecond, king of Spain, and who devoted much time to the natural hiftory of the animals, vegetables, and minerals of that rich country. This phyfician, however, does not appear to have been a very accurate naturalift; fo that even though he may have given an account of the bees of Mexico, it is more than probable, that the information which we might derive from him would not enable us to...
Page 261 - On the i ^th, it was evidently diminifhed, and it continued to grow more faint until about a week ago, when it difappeared. It pafled very rapidly through Cafltopea, Andromedd, the Triangle and Aries.
Page 258 - ... The honey-bee was- not found in Kentuckey, when we firft became acquainted with that fine country. But about the year 1780, a hive was brought, by a Colonel Herrod, to the Rapids of the Ohio, fmce which time thefe little infects have encreafed prodigioufly. Not long fmce, a hunter found thirty "wild fwarms in the courfe of one day*. Honey-bees were not known in that part of the ftate of New- York which is called the Jeneffie-Country, when it was firft vifited, nor even for a confiderable time...
Page 252 - An infect whofe produces are fo valuable as thofe of the bee would not, I think, have been omitted in the lift of animals indigenous to the country of Pennfylvania, if Mr. Penn had had any certain intimations of its exiftence there. Neither do I find the bee mentioned by any of the early Swedifh writers who publifhed accounts of Pennfylvania. I do not find that any of the writers on Virginia mention the honey-bee among the indigenous animals of the country. The little that Mr. Beverley has faid on...