, companies of five and six descend to gratify their appetite. On the evening we took this walk we saw their footprints in the soft sand of the torrent, but we got no glimpse of the graceful creatures themselves. From the bridge of Ruolan the old road to Perarolo ran through the pine-woods under the cliffs of Monte Zucco , above the Boite river. Grooves in the stones and rocks show the seemingly im passable places over which carts must have been dragged in thousands during the past centuries. The road can
still be followed on foot, and a delightful walk it makes. It is largely used by the peasants as a short cut to Perarolo. Monte Zucco Monte Zucco, to which I have already referred as the hill of the fort, affords endless walks. It is over 4000 feet above the sea-level, which means however only 1200 above Valle. Its ascent is an easy walk, for although its west side towards the Boite Valley is a sheer precipice, its eastern side is one long, gentle, undulating slope of meadow, pine- wood, and heather