Excerpt from Winter Wreath of Summer Flowers In addition to these severe and repulsive aspects of na ture, seeming to frown upon the approach of the mariner and to defy the labor of the agriculturist, Cerigo has been used at different periods, by the government, as a place of banishment for offenders against the law. In place, therefore, of the luxurious refinements of its ancient days, we find new a population for the whole island of scarcely ten thousand souls, chiefly devoted to petty commerce, to the raising of cattle, olive oil and honey. This last article has been celebrated from antiquity; the bees seeming to be the only living things which have remained the same amid the changes of nature and art wrought by the lapse of thirty centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.