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from the effect of the bite. The dog, after being 
bitten, gets very shaky for a time, and likes to mope 
by himself in an out-of-the-way place until he 
gets better, im a week or nine days.” —T. Rees, 
Llantrisant. 
“The marshy spots around Llantrisant are famous 
for snakes. I do not think that the coal, limestone, 
or ironstone measures or the localities of submerged 
forests have anything at all to do with snakes and 
vipers. 
“Snakes like wet ground and adders like a dry 
soil. The smooth snake has not been found in 
Glamorgan. 
“The food of the common or ring snake consists 
mainly of frogs, and snakes are found most numerous 
in wet meadows and marshes or in the neighbourhood 
of water, where they can easily get a supply of their 
favourite food. They take to the water readily, and 
I have frequently seen them swimiine in the dykes 
on the Graneetown Moors, where they used to exist in 
considerable numbers. They dive well, and ean stay 
under water for ten minutes or more, and catch and 
devour water-newts, of which they are very foud. 
“Two snakes of this species, which [I kept in 
confinement for about three years, were exhibited, 
amongst others, in my vivarium at the Cardiff Ex- 
hibition of 1881. They measured after death 4 feet 
02 inch and 4 feet 2 inches respectively. The 
longest I canght when sunning herself on a manure- 
