526 Notes of a trip from Simla to the Spiti Valley. [No. 5, 



they would certainly be found in such, spots in the plains. I once, 

 however, found near the Son a small comb on the under surface of a 

 stone little more than a foot square, which was propped up against 

 another resting on the ground and exposed to be trodden on by men 

 or animals. The only place where I noticed tame bees was a village 

 below Yangpa, in which a large well built house contained an 

 immense number of hives ranged in the walls, small openings being 

 made for their entrance in the timbers of which the house was 

 partially constructed. This house must have contained close on fifty 

 hives. The owner being absent, I could neither taste the honey nor 

 ascertain the mode of hiving the bees, but it is probably similar to 

 that practised in Kashmir, where it is a very usual thing for a house 

 to have a dozen hives in the wall, each consisting of an earthen pot 

 or cylinder contained in a small chamber in the wall with but a small 

 external opening for the egress of the bees, but closed internally 

 by a cover luted on, through which the honey is removed after the 

 bees are stupified by smoke. 



llth, Narkanda bungalow. 



12th, Matiana bungalow. 



13th, Fdgu bungalow. 



14ith, Simla (Hawthorne cottage (6,579 ft., mean of 5 Obs.) — The 

 most remarkable feature of interest I noticed on my return was the ap- 

 pearance presented by the cedars. On quitting Simla, the most con- 

 spicuous cones were those on the female trees, of a large size and a bright 

 apple green, but now the male trees were covered with great numbers 

 of small cones not a fifth of the dimensions of the others, but prominent 

 from their immense numbers on the trees, and the copious clouds of 

 pollen that they were discharging. The advent of autumn was also 

 marked by the absence of numerous familiar flowers and ferns, fit 

 and beautiful emblems of man and his short-lived destiny. 

 " O'lt] 7rep <f>vXXow yeverj tolj] Si kcu avSputv 



<J>uA./\.a to, [x\v t avefio? ^a^iaSis X* ci > < *^ a °^ $' v\r) 



TrjXs.Ooaocra cpvec e'apos o' iinyiyvzTaL wpir 



t^s avSpwv yeverj, rj p.ev <pvei rj S' d7ro/\^yet." — Horn. II. VI. 



Which same idea Crab be thus paraphrases and enlarges in his 

 Parish Register : 



" Yes, be is gone, and we are going all, 



Like flowers we wither and like leaves we fall. 



