. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . six trees, and there is no outlay to speak of. Besidesthe chestnuts, the land gives a still further return byway of the grass that grows beneath them. Walnutsdo not yield nearly so much per tree as chestnuts three quarters of an hour or so we reached SignorBonaudos farm, which was called the Casina diBanda The buildings had once been a monastery,founded at the beginning of the seventeenth cen-tury and secularised by the first Napoleon, but hadbeen purchased from the state a few years ago by C A SIN A DI BAND A. 157 Signo
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . six trees, and there is no outlay to speak of. Besidesthe chestnuts, the land gives a still further return byway of the grass that grows beneath them. Walnutsdo not yield nearly so much per tree as chestnuts three quarters of an hour or so we reached SignorBonaudos farm, which was called the Casina diBanda The buildings had once been a monastery,founded at the beginning of the seventeenth cen-tury and secularised by the first Napoleon, but hadbeen purchased from the state a few years ago by C A SIN A DI BAND A. 157 Signor Bonaudo, in partnership with three others,after the passing of the Church Property Act. Itis beautifully situated some hundreds of feet abovethe valley, and commands a lovely view of the Comda as it is called, or Combe of Susa. Theaccompanying sketch will give an idea of the viewlooking towards Turin. The large building on thehill is, of course, S. Michele. The very distant domeis the Superga on the other side of Turin. The first thing SignorBonaudo did when he. I CASINA DI BANDA. got to his farm was to see whether the water had been duly turned on to his own portion of the estate. Each of the four purchasers had his separate portion, and each had a right to the water for thirty-six hours per week. Signor Bonaudo went round with his hind at once, and saw that the dams in the ducts were so opened or closed that his own land was being irrigated. Nothing can exceed the ingenuity with which thelittle canals are arranged so that each part of ameadow, however undulating, shall be saturated 158 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. equally. The people are very jealous of their waterrights, and indeed not unnaturally, for the yield ofgrass depends in very great measure upon the amountof irrigation which the land can get. The matter of the water having been seen to, wewent to the monastery, or, as it now is, the we entered the farmyard we found two cows fight-ing, and a great strapping w
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