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CHAP. XXVI. 
On the countries most lenejicially situated for the cul- 
ture of the Bee, and the number of hives each can 
support. 
The former has already been fully considered, and 
the latter cannot well be determined ; as much de- 
pends upon the nature and quantity of the herbage of 
all countries, and the advantages which may be deriv- 
ed from the transportation or pasturage of Bees, in 
different districts of the same country, and as no da- 
mage has yet been recorded of any country, from hav- 
ing been overstocked with Bees. The celebrated La 
Grenee concludes, that, without contradiction, there 
are some countries more favourable to the cultivation 
of the Bee than others, yet that they may be kept to 
advantage in all, and that no onp ought to neglect to 
provide himself with Bees, whatever be the country 
and the soil, and the productions of the place. 
CHAP. XXVH. 
On the distance which- Bees fy for food. 
It is generally understood by Apiarians, that the 
Bee can fly 3 or 4 miles, and that they sometimes col- 
lect honey at this distance ; hut Mr. Huish has ren- 
dered this certain by the following fact. “ I once 
accompanied a party of friends to the Isle of Man, si- 
tuated at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, and 
which is at a much greater distance than 4 miles from 
any land. Not a single hive of Bees is kept upon 
this Island ; how great then was my astonishment to 
find a considerable number of Bees busily employed 
upon the Island amongst jthe heath, and who must 
have winged their way across the ocean in quest of 
