On the Arfemates of Copper and of Iron. 135 



where improvements arc fiill very imperfeft, it cannot be 

 deemed a trivial talk to have pointed out fome of thofe vege- 

 tables from which an injurious honey is obtaineJ. 



The ancients, who, in fome refpefts at leaft, were equal 

 to the moderns, appear to have paid much attention to this 

 fubject. Virgil* and Cohimella have both told us what 

 plants ought to grow about apiaries. It is unnccelfary to 

 repeat, in this place, what the two Roman writers have faid 

 on the fubjecl. The Georgics of the Mantuan poet are in the 

 hands of every man of tafte; and the work of Columellaf 

 Jhould be read, wherever agriculture engages the attention of 

 gentlemen. 



The proper management of bees may be confidered as a 

 fcience. It is not fufficient that bees merely make honey 

 and wax. Their honey may be injurious or poifonons, and 

 their wax may be nearly ufelefs. To affift and to dire£l the 

 labours of thefe little inledts, the knowledge and the hand of 

 man are required. Let, then, this interetled being be at leaft 

 attentive to his own benefits and pleafures. Let him care- 

 fully remove from about the habitations of his bees every 

 fetid or poifonous veo-ctable, however comely its colour or its 

 form. In particular, let him be careful to remove thofe 

 vegetable::; which are noxious to himfelf. In place of thefe, 

 let"him fprcad the " marjoram and thyme," and other plants, 

 *' the love of beesj," and his labours will be rewarded. 

 He may, then, furnifli his table with an honey not infe- 

 rior Ui that of Mount Hermettus, or of Athens ; nor to that 

 of Sicily, to which Virgil has fo handfomely alluded iu the 

 Jevcnth Eclogue : 



Kcriiie Galatea, tliymo m'lhi dukior HybJa;, 

 Candidior cycnis, hcderA fbrmofior alba. L, 37, 38. 



XXV. Dcfcr'iption of the Arfcniates of Copper and of Iron. 

 By the Count de BoUKNON. 



[Concluded fiom p. iz.] 



X HE modification which we have juft feen the primitive 

 cryftal afTume at one of its folid angles, and only on one 

 fide, fomctimes takes place alfo (only on one fide) at its two 

 other andcs. Then, if the aft of cryftallization has conti- 

 nued fo long, under the fame mode of increafe^ that the new 



♦ See ficorpicorum lib, iv, 1. 30 — j*. 

 t Dc Re RufticH, libii xii. 

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