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BRITISH BEES. 
To this remote period, possibly not so early as the 
discovery of the treasures of the bee, may be assigned 
also the first domestication of the animals useful to man, 
many of which are still found in those districts in all 
their primitive wildness. The discovery and cultivation 
of the cereal plants will also date from this early age. 
The domestication of animals has never been satisfac¬ 
torily explained, but all inquiry seems to point to those 
regions as the native land, both of them, and of the 
gramme ®, which produce our grain; for Heinzelmann, 
Linnaeus's enthusiastic disciple, found there those 
grasses still growing wild, which have not been found 
elsewhere in a natural state. 
Thus, long before the three great branches of the 
human race, the Aryan, Shemitic, and Turonian, took 
their divergent courses from the procreative nest which 
was to populate the earth, and which Max Muller pro¬ 
poses to call the Rhematic period, they were already 
endowed from their patrimony with the best gifts nature 
could present to them; and they were thus fitted, in their 
estrangement from their home, with the requirements, 
which the vicissitudes they might have to contend with 
in their migrations, most needed. They would even¬ 
tually have settled into varying conditions, differently 
modified by time acting conjunctively with climate and 
position, until, in the lapse of years, and the changes 
the earth has since undergone, the stamp impressed by 
these causes, which would have been originally evan¬ 
escent, became indelible. That but one language was 
originally theirs, the researches of philology distinctly 
prove, by finding a language still more ancient than its 
Aryan, Shemitic, and Turonian derivatives. From this 
elder language these all spring, their common origin 
