CYPRUS. 57 
vation of our Saviour, alluding to tliis custom 
in his prediction concerning the destruction 
of Jerusalem'^ : " Two women shall be grinding 
at the mill ; the one shall be taken, and the 
other left." 
In these little cottages we found very large CuHous 
establishments for bees, but all the honey thus keeping 
made is demanded by the Governor; so that 
an apiary is only considered as the cause of an 
additional tax. The manner, however, in which 
the honey is collected, is curious, and worthy 
of imitation, and it merits a particular descrip- 
tion : the contrivance is simple, and was doubt- 
less suggested by the more antient custom, 
still existing in the Crimea, of harbouring bees 
in cylindrical hives made from the bark of 
trees. They build up a w^all formed entirely 
of earthen cylinders, each about three feet in 
length, placed, one above the other, horizontally, 
and closed at their extremities with mortar ^ 
(2) Matt.w'w. 41. 
(3) The bee-hives of Egypt, and of Palestine, are of the same kind. 
" Those of Egypt," says Hasselquist, " are made of coal-dust and 
clay, which being well blended together, they form of the mixture a 
hollow cylinder, of a span diameter, and as long as they please, from 
six to twelve feet: this is dried in the sun, and it becomes so bard, 
that it may be handled at will. I saw some thousands of these hives 
at a village between Damiata and Mansora." Hasselquist' s Voy. and 
Trav. p. 236. Lond. 1766. 
