- Hoc comedunt pro rebus faccharo con- ditis/ SchefF. Lapp. c. i8. Certainly if they had honey, it would be a better fubftitute for fugar than any preparation of the pine bark. Kalm tells us* the honey-bee cannot hve through the winter in Canada. They furnifh then an addi- tional proof of the remarkable fa6l firft obferved by the Count de Buffon, and which has thrown fuch a blaze of hght on the field of natural hiftory, that no ani- mals are found in both continents, but thofe which are able to bear the cold of thofe regions where they probably join.
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QUERY VII. A NOTICE of all that can increafe the progrefs of human knowledge?
Under the latitude of this query, I will prefume it not improper nor unacceptable to furnifli fome data for eftimating the climate of Virginia. Journals of ob- fervations on the quantity of rain, and degree of heat, being lengthy, confufed, and too minute to produce general and diftindl ideas, I have taken five years' ob- fervations, to wit, from 1772 to 1777, made in Williamfburgh and its neighbour- hood, have reduced them to an average for every month in the year, and ftated thofe averages in the following table, adding an analytical view of the winds during the fame period.
[ H3 1 [ H4 ] The rains of every month, (as of Ja- nuary, for inftance) through the whole period of years, were added feparately, and an average drawn from them. The coolefl: and warmeft point of the fame day in each year of the period, were added feparately, and an average of the greateft cold and greateft heat of that day, was formed. From the averages of every day in the month, a general average for the whole month was