. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . people cuttheir hay, and then for a while the glory of the placeis gone, but by the end of August or the beginning ofSeptember the grass has grown long enough to re-cover the slopes with a velvety verdure, and thoughthe flowers are shorn, yet so they are from otherplaces also. There are many walks in the neighbourhood forthose who do not mind mountain paths. The mostbeautiful of them all is to the valley of Sambuco, theupper end of which is not more than half-an-hourfrom Si^nor Dazios hotel. For some time onekeeps to the path
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . people cuttheir hay, and then for a while the glory of the placeis gone, but by the end of August or the beginning ofSeptember the grass has grown long enough to re-cover the slopes with a velvety verdure, and thoughthe flowers are shorn, yet so they are from otherplaces also. There are many walks in the neighbourhood forthose who do not mind mountain paths. The mostbeautiful of them all is to the valley of Sambuco, theupper end of which is not more than half-an-hourfrom Si^nor Dazios hotel. For some time onekeeps to the path through the wooded gorge, and withthe river foaming far below; in early morning whilethis path is in shade, or, again, after sunset, it is oneof the most beautiful of its kind that I know. Aftera while a gate is reached, and an open upland valleyis entered upon—evidently an old lake filled up, andneither very broad nor very long, but grassed all over^ FUSIO. 363 and with the river winding through it like an Englishbrook. This is the valley of Sambuco. There are. STREET VIEW IN FUSIO. two collections of stalle for the cattle, or monti—one atthe nearer end and the other at the farther. The floor of the valley can hardly be less than 5000 364 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. feet above the sea. I shall never forget the pleasure with which I first came upon it. I had long wanted an ideal upland valley; as a general rule high valleys are too narrow, and have little or no level ground. If they have any at all there often is too much as with the one where Andermatt and Hospenthal are—which would in some respects do very well— and too much cultivated, and do not show their height. An upland valley should first of all be in an Italian-speaking country ; then it should have a smooth, grassy, perfectly level floor of say neither much more nor less than a hundred and fifty yards in breadth and half-a-mile in length. A small river should go babbling through it with occasional smooth parts, so
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