132 ILERCULEAN LABOURS.

in preparing drawings and suitable cxplanations.
When it was summer time, his daily labour began
at six in the morning, when the sun afforded him
light enough to survey such minute objects; and
from that hour till twelve, he continued without
interruption, all the while exposed in the open air
to the scorching heat of the sun, bareheaded, for
fear of interrupting the light, and his head thus
exposed to the full power of that luminary. ‘‘ This
fatigue he submitted to for a whole month together,
without any interruption, merely to examine, de-
scribe, and represent the intestines of bees, besides
many months more bestowed upon the other parts,
during which time he spent whole days in making
observations, as long as there was sufficient light ;
and whole nights in registering his observations, till
at last he brought his work to the wished-for per-
fection. The better to accomplish his vast un-
limited views, he often wished for a year of per-
petual light and heat to perfect his experiments,
with a polar night, to reap all the advantages
of them by proper drawings and descriptions. In
his essay on the Hemorobion, or Day-fly, he in-
genuously confesses that his ‘ Treatise on Bees’ was
formed amid a thousand doubts and self-reproaches;
for, on the one hand, his genius urged him to
examine the miracles of the great Creator in His
natural productions, whilst, on the other, the love