21 8 DEPRIVATION AND TRANSPORTATION. 
the practice is almost universal. One instance is thus 
stated by a friend.* “About five miles from Edin- 
burgh, at the foot of one of the Pentland hills, stands 
Logan-house, supposed the former residence of Sir 
W. Worthy, celebrated by Allan Ramsay in his 
Gentle Shepherd. This house is now occupied by a 
shepherd, who, during July and August, receives 
about 100 bee-hives from his neighbours beyond the 
hills, that their bees may gather the honey from the 
luxuriant blossoms of the mountain heather.” 
The exact period when transportation is to be had 
recourse to, must be regulated by the localities, and 
by the temperature of the season. But in general, 
the Bee-master will act safely if he adopt the decay 
of the white clover as the signal of removal. At that 
period, the heath is coming into bloom, and soon 
presents a rich fund of sweets to the eager collectors. 
By transporting them thither, a double harvest may 
be reaped. In the autumn of 1828, we took nearly the 
whole stores from a few hives, before transporting 
them to the moors ; and on bringing them back, after 
an absence of about three weeks, they had acquired 
at an average ten lbs. of honey each. Double this 
quantity in the same period of time, if the weather 
is dry and sunny, is by no means uncommon, as the 
fruit of transportation. But much depends on the 
season ; and the rains so often prevailing in August 
and September, frequently disappoint the expectations 
of the owner. In 1 829, during the autumn of which 
* Dr. Bevan. 
