84 UTILIZATION OF MINDTE LIFE. 



hives are transported in boats from all parts of 

 Egypt into the upper district, and are then heaped 

 in pyramids upon other boats prepared to receive 

 them. In this station they remain some days, and 

 are then removed lower down, where they remain 

 the same time ; and so they proceed until the month 

 of February, when, having traversed Egypt, and 

 arrived at the sea, they are dispersed to their several 

 owners. A similar transportation of hives occurs in 

 Persia, Asia-Minor, Greece, sometimes in Italy, 

 and even in England in the neighbourhoods of 

 heaths. 



The honey-hunters of New England seek the 

 wild bees' nests in the following manner : Whilst 

 the sun shines brightly a plate containing honey is 

 set upon the ground. It soon attracts the bees, who 

 feed greedily upon it until their honey-bag is filled. 

 Having secured two or three that are thus satiated 

 the hunter allows one to escape. The insect rises 

 in the air, and being completely laden, flies straight 

 towards its nest. The bee-hunter then strikes off 

 for a few hundred yards at right angles to the course 

 taken by the first bee, and lets fly another ; he ob- 

 serves its course with his pocket compass. The 

 point where the two courses intersect each other is 

 the spot where the nest is situated. 



The bulletin of the Paris " Socie"t d' Acclima- 

 tization" for 1856 announces the discovery of a new 



