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NATURE NOTES 
As a proof of how easily this can be done, I may describe 
a small piece of similar work successfully carried out by the 
Barmouth Branch of the Selborne Society. The well-known 
Panorama Hill was, three years ago, in as unsightly a condition 
as are, alas ! most of our show places. Our little Society rented 
the hill from the Urban District Council: our President, at 
considerable expense, repaired the refreshment shed at the 
entrance and removed all the rubbish ; and it is now sub-let to a 
tenant on the strict condition that the scattered papers, broken 
bottles, &c., shall be removed every day. The result is excellent. 
Now and then, following close upon a picnic party, one finds 
fragments scattered over the heather ; and the tenant of the 
shed complains bitterly that people, “ even artists,” seem to 
climb to the highest point for the express purpose of tearing up 
and scattering their letters. But I have certainly never seen a 
show place free to the British public so little disfigured by litter. 
The same method could easily be enforced on the top of 
Snowdon. The managers of the hotel might be obliged to collect 
in a bin, and send down by the first train each day, all the 
ashes, refuse and litter : the bin would come up again empty ; 
and this done regularly would effectually prevent the top of 
Snowdon from becoming what it will soon be unless something 
is done — one gigantic ash-heap. To inaugurate such a system 
will cost something : will anyone help in doing this, which is, 
I think, the least that ought to be done ? My ideal scheme 
would be to buy the top of Snowdon by public subscription, 
and put it in the hands of the “ National Trust,” as the posses- 
sion of the nation for ever : then to have the corrugated iron 
hotel, the terrace and the brick wall entirely removed, as well as 
all the accumulated rubbish, and the top-most crag left to recover 
its natural form as far as possible after such abuse. A neat 
low stone hotel should then be built, loo feet at least below the 
summit, so that its outlines would not anywhere interfere with 
the outlines of the mountain, and the manager be bound over, 
as I have said, to keep the place absolutely free of litter. Is 
this an impossible ideal ? Is it true that we can make tunnels 
under seas, and carry railways up mountain sides — but cannot 
save from disfigurement the finest mountain in our land ? 
Blanche Atkinson. 
