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been brought across the Channel packed in the pads of lettuce 
and salads which come from the South of France in large 
quantities in the months of April and May. ‘This is a very 
common insect throughout France, where it 1s known by the 
name of Le Jardinier; but becomes rare as we advance north- 
ward, being seldom seen in Germany or Sweden.—T. R. Bruuvrs ; 
4, Swiss Villas, Coplestone Road, Peckham. 
Extract from A Journey into Greece. By Grorcr WHELER; in 
company of Dr. Spon, of Lyons. In Six Books. London, 
1682.* 
“ Our first expedition was to climb up Mount Hymettus, 
whose foot is about three or four miles from Athens, south-east 
of it. This mountain is celebrated for the best honey in all 
Greece, of which it makes a great quantity to send to Constanti- 
nople, where it is much esteemed for making sorbets. They 
use, therefore, to bring all the honey made hereabouts, to be 
marked with the mark of the monastry of Cosbashi, to make it 
sell the better. We eat of it very freely, finding it to be very 
good, and were not at all incommodated with any gripings after 
it. This mountain was not less famous in times past for bees 
and admirable honey, the antients believing that bees were first 
bred here, and that all other bees were but colonies from this 
mountain ; which if so, we assured ourselves, that it must be 
from this part of the mountain that the colonies were sent; 
both because the honey here made is the best, and that here they 
never destroy the bees. It is of a good consistence, of a fair 
golden colour, and the same quantity sweetens more water than 
the like quantity of any other doth; which they sufficiently 
experience in making sorbet. They wondered at my comrade, in 
that he preferred the white honey of France, telling him the 
white honey was raw, and not perfectly concocted, either by 
nature or the bees. Strabo, I remember, saith, the best honey 
of Hymettus was by the silver mines; but where they were, is 
now unknown, unless hereabouts, by the same reason. Now the 
best argument to prove that bees had their origin from hence, is, 
that here they never destroy or impair the stock of bees in 
taking away their honey, a thing which I no sooner knew, but I 
* Contributed by the late Frederick Smith.—Ep. 
