RETURN TO THEIR HOMES. 8? 



has become milder, and vegetation commenced, such of them 

 as have escaped the manifold perils to which they have 

 been so constantly exposed, almost simultaneously disappear. 

 Some will have it that, from feeding on the young and 

 tender grasses, they all die. Others again contend, and 

 with much greater reason, that they then set oif on their 

 return to the fjalls ; but few of them, nevertheless, are 

 supposed to reach their homes. 



