fields in the same way and along the rivers in to collect the honey of the delightful vegetation of the banks in egypt they are taken far up the and floated slowly home again gathering the honey harvest of the various fields on the way their movements in accord with the seasons were similar methods pursued in the productive season would last nearly all the year the average elevation of the north half of the is as we have seen considerably less than that of the south half and small streams with the bank and meadow gardens dependent upon them the bee pastures are less abundant around the head waters of the feather and rivers the extensive of are planted with pines through which the sunshine reaches the ground with little here a scattered gi of golden and similar plants with cherry and thorn in ragged patches on the cooler hill slopes at the of the great central plain the and coast curve around and lock together in a of mountains and valleys throughout which their are mingled making at the north with its temperate climate and copious a perfect paradise for bees though strange to say scarcely a single regular bee has yet been established in it of all the upper flower fields of the is the most and may yet pass in fame the celebrated honey hills of and regarding this noble mountain from a bee point of view encircled by its many and sweeping aloft from the plain into the frosty we find the first feet from the summit generally snow clad and therefore about as as the sea the base of this region is by a belt of crumbling measuring about feet in breadth and is mostly free from snow in summer beautiful the faces of the cliffs with their bright colors and in some of the there are a few of wall flowers and but notwithstanding the mountains of these bloom freely in the late summer the as a whole is almost as as the icy summit and its lower edge may be taken as the honey line immediately below this comes the forest covered with a rich growth of chiefly silver rich in and honey dew and with countless garden many of them less than a hundred yards across next in orderly succession comes the great bee its area far that of the icy summit and both the other combined for it goes sweeping around the entire mountain with a breadth of six or seven miles and a of nearly a hundred miles as we have already seen is a fire mountain created by a succession of of ashes and which flowing over the lips of its several grew outward and upward like the trunk of a tree then followed a strange contrast the winter came on the mountain with ice which flowed slowly outward in every direction from the summit in the form of one vast � a down crawling mantle of ice upon a fountain of fire crushing and gi for centuries its brown with incessant activity and thus and the entire mountain when at length the period began to draw near its close the ice mantle was gi melted around the bottom and in receding and breaking into its present condition irregular and heaps of matter were stored upon its the the bee pastures of most of the produces composed of rough sub of moderate size and of gi and sand which freely to the power of running water magnificent floods from the ample fountains of ice and snow working with sublime energy upon this prepared it out and earned down immense quantities from the higher slopes and it in smooth like around the base and it is these flood beds joined together that now form the main honey of the old thus by forces seemingly and destructive has mother nature accomplished her beneficent designs � now a flood of fire now a flood of ice now a flood of water and at length an outburst of life a way of snowy and wings the rugged mountain like a cloud as if the beating against its sides had broken into a foam of plant bloom and bees as sea waves break and bloom on a rock shore in this wilderness the and rejoicing in the of the sun eagerly through and ringing the bells of the now humming aloft among and now down on the ground among and and anon plunging deep into snowy banks of cherry and they consider the lilies and roll into them and like lilies they toil not for they are impelled by sun power as water wheels by and when the one has plenty of high the mountains of sure water the other plenty of sunshine they hum and quiver alike in the bee lands in the sun days of summer one may readily infer the time of day from the comparative energy of bee movements alone � drowsy and moderate in the cool of the morning increasing in energy with tlie ascending sun and at high noon thrilling and quivering in wild ecstasy then gradually declining again to the stillness of night in my excursions among the i occasionally meet bees that are hungry like s who venture too far and remain too long above the bread line then they and like autumn leaves the are s better fed than any others ill th their field work is one perpetual f � but however the sunshine or l the supply of flower s they are always and seldom set foot upon a flower ut on the wing in front of it and reach forward as if were through but bees though as dainty as they their favorite flowers with profound cordiality and push their blunt fa � es against them like babies on their mother s bosom and fondly too with eternal love does mother nature clasp her small bee babies and them multitudes at 