 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...  Origins of Apis Mellifica in America - Page 259by Benjamin Smith Barton - 1793 - 22 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1793 - 428 pages
...devoured by infects. As the air was not then purified, the ground cleared, the woods cut down, nor the waters drained ofF, thefe little animals deftroyed,...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... | |
 | abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - America - 1776 - 570 pages
...off, thefe little animals deftroyed without oppofttion all the productions of nature. None of them was ufeful to mankind. There is only one at prefent, which...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... | |
 | abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - America - 1776 - 572 pages
...off", thefe Iittle animals deftroyed without oppofition all the productions of nature. None of them was ufeful to mankind. There is only one at prefent, which...the old to the new world. The favages call it, the Englifh fly ; and it is only found near the coafts. Thefe tircumftances announce it to be of foreign... | |
 | abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - 1777 - 708 pages
...off, thefe little animals deflroyed without oppofition all the productions of nature. None of them was ufeful to mankind. There is only one at prefent, which...the bee : but this is fuppofed to have been carried on from the old to the new world. The favages call it, the Englilh fly ; and it is only found near... | |
 | Guillaume Thomas F. Raynal - 1779 - 354 pages
...oppofuion, all the productions of nature. None of them was ufeful to mankind. There is only one at prelent, which is the bee : but this is fuppofed to have been carried from the old to the new world. The favagcscall it, the Rnglijb-fly ; and it is only found near tht coafts. Thefe circumttances announce... | |
 | abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - America - 1783 - 584 pages
...oppofition, all the productions of nature. None of them were ufeful to mankind. There is only one atprefent, which is the bee; but this is fuppofed to have been...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... | |
 | abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - America - 1798 - 558 pages
...devoured by infecls. As the air was not then purified, the ground cleared, the woods cut down, nor the waters drained off, thefe little animals deftroyed,...the Old to the New World. The favages call it the Englifh fly ; and it is only found near the coalts. Thefe circumftances announce it to be of foreign... | |
 | C. H. Kauffman - Commerce - 1815 - 460 pages
...of honey are produced by the wild bees in the woods of North America. The bee is an insect, supposed to have been carried from the old to the new world. The Indians, in North America, call it the English fly; and it is only found near the coasts. Their numbers... | |
 | Stefania Buccini - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 252 pages
...of them was useful to mankind. There is only one at present, which is the bee: but this is supposed to have been carried from the old to the new world. . . . The bee is not the only present which Europe has had in her power to make to America. She had enriched... | |
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