SUVA, a province of Piedmont, is bounded N. and W. Ly the Alps, which separate it from Savoy and France. S. by the province of Pine role, and E. by that of Torino. The area is 539 square miles, and the population In 1818 was 81,S31. A great part of the province of Susa lies on the elope of the great Alpine ridge, which here forma the groups of Mont Cenis and Mont Genesee, the highest summits of which are morn than 11,000 feet above the sea. The Dora .Ripuaria, which crosses the province from cast to west, rises on Mont Genevre above the village of Cetanna, desceuds by Oulx and Exilles into the fine valley of Sun, passes by the town of Susa, and at Avigliana enters the plain of Turin, and joins the Po north of Turin, after a course of between sixty and seventy miles. The valley of Susa is fertile, and produces corn, wine, flax, hemp, and mulberries. The highlands produce abundance of chestnuts, and afford good summer pasture. The great road from Turin to Savoy and France over Mont Cenis ascends the valley of Susa as far as the town of Suss, and then turning off to the northward, climbs the aide of the mountain till it reaches the elevated plain with the small lake of Mont Cenis, famous for its trout, where is the boundary between Piedmont and Savoy. From the town of &tea, following the ascent of the valley to the westward, is the village of Chiomonte or Chaumont, known for its wines, which are equal to those of Burgundy. Higher up is the village of Exilles, with
its old fortress built on a rock above the Dora ; and still higher is the village of Oulx, from which a carriage-road leads over Mont Cieuevre to Briancon in Dauphind. Below Susa is the village of Bussolino, ou the high road to Turin, in the neighbourhood of which is a quarry of green marble. Lower down is the town of Avigliana, on the Susa Turin railway, with 3000 inhabitants, in a very fruitful with two email lakes well stocked with fish. The province of Susa is included in the administrative division of Torino.
Saw, the capital of the province, which is connected with Turin by railway, occupies the site of the ancient Segusium or Segusio, is a bishop's see, and has about 3300 inhabitants. North of the town is a triumphal arch of white marble raised in honour of Augustus, which is still in pretty good preservation. The fortress of La Brunette, cut in the rock by Charles Emmanuel III. commanded the roads of Mont Genii and MontsGenevre. It was destroyed by the French in 1796. The town is old and ill-built. Several of the streets are lined with low arcades. It has a royal college, a provincial court, and some manufac tories of leather, gloves, and thread.