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by all the languages of tlie south of Europe, and is de¬ 
rived from the name of Bugia, a town of Northern 
Africa, whence, even as long hack as the time of the 
Roman Empire, wax was obtained to make candles for 
lighting. The inhabitants of Trebizonde paid their tri¬ 
bute to the Roman Empire in wax. Both honey and 
wax are largely employed in pharmacy, and were also, 
in ancient times, both extensively used in embalming. 
The honey of Mount Hymetta in Attica, and of Hybla 
in Sicily, were each in as high repute in classical coun¬ 
tries as is that of Narbonne in Languedoc, by reason of 
its choice delicacy, with us, and throughout France. 
Distributed over the wide pastures of the Ukraine, every 
peasant has his store of hives, which frequently, in their 
harvests, realize more largely than their crops of grain, 
•—multitudes of that peasantry computing as important 
items in the estimate of their wealth the number of 
their beehives, which often exceed five hundred to the 
individual possessor. In Spain and Italy bees are largely 
cultivated; and in the former country many a poor 
parish priest, the religious monitor of an obscure hamlet, 
can count his five thousand. 
In countries so rich in the productions of Flora, whose 
seasons there are perennial, and which fluctuate only in 
special locality, bees are removed to and fro to meet 
these peculiarities. Thus in the south of France, where 
large tracts are cultivated with aromatic shrubs and 
flowers, for the distillation of essential oils and fragrant 
waters, the hives of bees are moved up and down the 
adjacent rivers upon rafts, as the flowering of the crops 
succeed each other. In Italy, Spain, and Southern 
Russia, the same practices are pursued, although we have 
no detailed accounts of the precise spots; but we know 
