And for the edification of our Swedish and Canadian members, I add the
following entry.

"How far northwardly have these insects been found? That they are unknown
in Lapland, I infer from Scheffer's information, that the Laplanders eat
the pine bark, prepared in a certain way, instead of those things
sweetened with sugar. [* * *] Certainly if they had honey, it would be a
better substitute for sugar than any preparation of the pine bark. Kalm
tells us the honey-bee cannot live through the winter in Canada. They
furnish then an additional remarkable fact, first observed by the Count de
Buffon, and which has thrown such a blaze of light on the field of natural
history, that no animals are found in both continents, but those which are
able to bear the cold of those regions where they probably [Col 2] join. —

TITLE: Notes on Virginia.
EDITION: Washington ed. viii, 320.
EDITION: Ford ed., iii, 176.
PLACE: [none given]
DATE: 1782 "

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