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[690.] Columella says the Greeks were accustomed, every year, to remove the hives from Achaia into Attica.—Ibid.

[691.] One person in particular, in the territory called Gatonois, has been at the pains of removing his hives, after the harvest of Sainfoin, into the plains of Beauce, where the melilot abounds, and thence into Sologne, where it is well known the Bees may enjoy the advantage of buckwheat, till toward the end of September, for so long that plant retains its flowers.—Ibid.

[692.] Ins. Misc., p. 262.

[693.] Mag. of Nat. Hist., iii. 652.

[694.] Wood’s Zoog., ii. 429.

[695.] Ins. Misc., p. 263.

[696.] Quot. by Langstroth—On Honey-Bee, p. 305, note.

[697.] Nat. Hist., x. 9.

[698.] Journ. of Geog. Soc., 1843, xiii. 40.

[699.] Murray’s Africa, i. 168.