The Food of the Owh, 17 
system in Wales. It is certain that from the group of the Glyders 
and Tryfan, no less than three glaciers— one of vast extent— poured 
into the vales and plains below ; and probably round every peak or 
group of nearly equal height, and whose masses are broken up into 
those deep hollows and amphitheatres which are so favorable to the 
collection of a reservoir of snow — and, in a climate of variable tem- 
perature, to the consequent development of glaciers -similar ice- 
streams must have filled up the valleys and choked the gorges in 
every direction. The great peculiarity of this scenery must have 
been the small elevation of the peaks and mountain ranges above 
the general level of the glaciers. In Switzerland the summits com- 
monly tower for thousands of feet above the highest parts of the 
highest glaciers, properly so-called ; ai)d the great glacier basins 
and reservoirs are commonly bounded by huge aretes of bare and 
rugged rock, specked only with snowy deposits, such as the ranges 
which hem in the glaciers de TEchand, the central tributary of the 
Mer de Glace, or which block up the extremities of the glacier of 
the Aar and the lower glacier of Grindelwald. In Wales, the cor- 
responding heights must have been measured by hundreds, instead 
of thousands of feet, for many of the glacier basins themselves lie 
high ; and in this respect, despite the magnificent effect of such a 
wide expa*ise of snow and of broken and crevassed ice, the difference 
must have been unfavorable to the grandeur of the scenery. Some- 
thing of the same kind may be seen in the northern glaciers of Nor- 
way, though the heights which surmount them are higher above 
the glacier level than was probably the case in North Wales, and 
there is no reason to suspect the existence in Wales of those vast 
fields of snow whose aspect and distinguishing peculiarities are so 
essentially different from those glaciers, and which give to the scenery 
of Norway a character so unique and extraordinary. 
THE FOOD OF THE OWLS. 
BY W. S. STRODE, M.D. 
A FEW years ago Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some of the more east- 
^ em States enacted laws offering a bounty of fifty cents per 
head for all hawks and owls that should be killed. 
This munificent bounty aroused the professional hunters, and for 
the time being legitimate game was abandoned in many sections of 
