colour was not acconipanied with any fenfible dif- eafe, either general or topical.
Of our fifli and infefts there has been nothing like a full defcription or colleftion.
More of them are defcribed in Catefby than in any other work. Many alfo are to be found in Sir Hans Sloane's Jamaica, as being common to that and this country. The honey-bee is not a native of our continent. Marcgrave indeed mentions a fpecies of honey-bee in Brafil. But this has no fling, and is therefore diiferent from the one we have, which refembles perfeftly that of Europe. The Indians concur with us in the tradition that it was brought from Europe; but when, and by whom, w^e know not. The bees have generally extended themfelves into the country, a little in advance of the white fettlers. The Indians therefore call them the white man's fly, and confider their [ HI ] approach as indicating the approach of the fettlements of the whites. A queftion here occurs, How far northwardly have thefe infedls been found? That they are unknown in Lapland, I infer from Schef- fer's information, that the Laplanders eat the pine bark, prepared in a certain way, inftead of thofe things fweetened with fugar.