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to tills Custom in his prediction concerning the day of judg¬ 
ment : # “t wo women shall be grinding at the mill; the one 
shall be taken, and the other left.” 
In these little cottages we found very large establishments 
for bees, but all the honey thus made is demanded by the go¬ 
vernor ; so that keeping these insects is only considered as the 
means of an additional tax. The manner, however, in which 
the honey is collected, is so curious, and so worthy of imitation* 
that it merits a particular description : the contrivance is very 
simple, and was doubtless suggested by the more ancient custom,, 
still used in the Crimea, of harbouring bees in cylinders made 
from the bark of trees. They build up a wall formed entirely 
of earthen cylinders, each about three feet in length, placed, one 
above the other, horizontally, and closed at their extremities 
with mortar.f This wall is then covered with ashed, and up- 
wards of one hundred swarms may thus be maintained within 
a very small compass Close to this village grew the largest 
earob tree we noticed in all our travels. It is, by some, called 
St, John’s bread tree the ceratonid siliqtia of Linnseus. It 
was covered with fruit, the pods being then green, and had at¬ 
tained the size of our largest English oaks* We could neither 
discover nor hear of antiquities near this village; except one 
large reservoir for water, pointed out as an ancient work, al¬ 
though probably of Venetian origin. This is still in a perfect 
state, lined with square blocks of stone, about twenty-five feet 
deep, and fifteen feet wide. It is situated in a field close to the 
village. 
Two hours before sun rise, we again set out for Nicotia.— 
The road lay through an open country; but high mountains 
were every where in view, as on the preceding evening. Some 
of these, as we drew nearer to them* exhibited very remarkable 
forms, standing insulated, and with flat tops, like what are 
usually called table mountains. On our right, we observed one 
that rose out of a fine plain, having a most perfect conical form, 
excepting that its vertex appeared truncated parallel toils base. 
Upon the road we noticed distinct masses of the purest tran¬ 
sparent selenites, or crystallized sulphat of lime, as diaphanous 
as the most limpid specimens from Montmartre, near Paris, It 
& Matt. xxiv. 41 . 
t The bee hives of Egypt, and of Palestine, are of the same kind. ‘ Those of Egypt, ? 
says Hasselquist, ‘are made of coaldust and clay, which being well blended together, 
they form of the mixture a hollow c y linder, of a span diameter, and as long as they 
please, from six to twelve feet: this is dried in the sun, and becomes so hard, that it 
may be handled at will. 1 saw some thousands of these hives at a village between Da* 
miata and Maasora.’ HassclouisVs Voy. and Trav > 236c Land. ]%& , 
