The Foundation of the City 
proof of his theory, Sir John cites as an 
instance an experiment within the reach of 
all. If you place in a bottle half a dozen 
bees and the same number of flies, and 
lay the bottle down horizontally, with its 
base to the window, you will find that the 
bees will persist, till they die of exhaustion 
or hunger, in their endeavour to discover 
an issue through the glass; while the 
flies, in less than two minutes, will all 
have sallied forth through the neck on 
the opposite side. From this Sir John 
Lubbock concludes that the intelligence 
of the bee is exceedingly limited, and that 
the fly shows far greater skill in extricat- 
ing itself from a difficulty, and finding its 
way. This conclusion, however, would 
not seem altogether flawless. Turn the 
transparent sphere twenty times, if you 
will, holding now the base, now the neck, 
to the window, and you will find that the 
bees will turn twenty times with it, so as 
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