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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 arid 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, hut 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. 
11 th, Narkanda bungalow. 
Ylth, Matiana bungalow. 
1 %th, Fdgu bungalow. 
14 th, 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, hut 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. 
“ Oiy 7 rep (j>v\Xwv yevey roly Se Kal dvSpwv’ 
<huA/\.a ra yev r aveyos ya/xaSis ^AAa 8e O' vXy 
TyXeOowaa <£>vec eapos 8’ tV lylyverai iopy 
fl tV S dvSpwv yevey, y yev cfivei y 8’ cnroXyyeil' —ITom. 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. 
